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This is the first day of the year 1961, which has a lot of different major events.
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John F. Kennedy is inagrated as a U.S. president
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John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travel to be his physician this is the first time a women holds this appointment.
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The Sunday telegraph publishes its first issue.
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The trial starts of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
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A boeing 707 crashes in Belgium, killing 73 including the entire united states figure skating team and several coaches
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South Africa withdraws from Brittish commonwealth
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Bob Dylan makes his singing debut in New York.
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freedom riders bus is fire = bombed near Anniston, Alabama. And the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob
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Kuwait declares independence from the united kingdom
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Construction begins on the Berlin wall, Conrad Schumann flees from east Germany.
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Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
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In the soviet union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's tomb
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Neil A. Armstrong holds a world record speed in a jet of 6587km/h fling a x-15
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Cold War: in a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader fidel castro declares that he is a Marxist Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt communism.