WHAT ALL HAPPENED NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1961
Find out what all happened November to December 1961

Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain. (9. December 1961)

Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500. (17. December 1961)

Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization. (15. December 1961)

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

India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India. (19. December 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)

In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism. (2. December 1961)

Tanganyika joins the United Nations. (14. December 1961)

50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation. (1. November 1961)

RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service. (31. December 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)