WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1961
Find out what all happened June to October 1961

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

Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter. (21. September 1961)

The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury. (16. September 1961)

Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall. (22. August 1961)

NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. (27. October 1961)

In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin. (4. June 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)

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

The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade. (5. September 1961)

The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS-TV in the United States. (3. October 1961)

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

Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. (15. August 1961)

Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom. (19. June 1961)

First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army. (10. August 1961)

Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union. (16. June 1961)

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

Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund. (11. September 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)

Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead. (30. October 1961)

Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959. (23. June 1961)