WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO NOVEMBER 1961
Find out what all happened March to November 1961

Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba. (20. April 1961)

The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli. (11. August 1961)

Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission). (21. July 1961)

Syria exits from the United Arab Republic. (29. October 1961)

East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West. (13. August 1961)

Algiers putsch by French generals. (23. April 1961)

President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power. (25. August 1961)

Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity. (11. November 1961)

Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari. (10. September 1961)

American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South. (4. May 1961)

American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out. (21. May 1961)

United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam. (18. November 1961)

Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum. (9. July 1961)

American President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps. (1. March 1961)

Sierra Leone joins the United Nations. (27. September 1961)

Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections. (1. March 1961)

The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate. (1. September 1961)

The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City. (30. March 1961)

At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain. (31. July 1961)

K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned. (30. April 1961)