WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1961
Find out what all happened January to November 1961

Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International. (28. May 1961)

The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. (11. April 1961)

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

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

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

Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings. (9. May 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)

Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund. (11. September 1961)

Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit. (25. April 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)

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

The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization. (1. October 1961)

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

Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of former Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police. (17. October 1961)

Cyprus joins the Council of Europe. (24. May 1961)

Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes. (21. August 1961)

In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference. (25. January 1961)

John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds the appointment of Physician to the President. (26. January 1961)

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