31 events found for 1961
In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is goin
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the
Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba
Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit
K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned
The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections
American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South
Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V ope
Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight
Air France Flight 406 is destroyed by a bomb over the Sahara, killing 78
Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bu
Park Chung Hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea
Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost
At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Be
American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore or
American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after di
Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers
The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic