WHAT HAPPENED IN 1961.
Look what happened the 1961.

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

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

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

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

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

Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state. (11. September 1961)

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

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

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

U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (18. September 1961)

Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece. (20. September 1961)

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

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

A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria. (28. September 1961)

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

East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. (1. October 1961)

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