69 events found for 1961
The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military…
East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
The CTV Television Network, Canada's first private television network, is launched.
A Douglas Dakota IV operated by Derby Aviation (later renamed to British Midland International) crashes in Canigou,…
Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri.
The Soviet Navy performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a…
NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.