WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1961
Find out what all happened June to December 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)

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

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

Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations. (27. October 1961)

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

Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund. (11. 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)

In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Vladimir Lenin's Tomb. (31. October 1961)

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

The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (17. September 1961)

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

Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later. (19. July 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)

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

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