WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1961
Find out what all happened July to November 1961

Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise. (30. October 1961)

French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte. (20. July 1961)

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

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

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

The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua. (23. July 1961)

Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico. (29. November 1961)

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

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

A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria. (28. 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)

Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour. (15. September 1961)

The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine. (20. October 1961)

The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress. (3. August 1961)

The African and Malagasy Union is founded. (12. September 1961)

Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations. (27. October 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)