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politics

see also list of the heads of state 1961

1. January: Friedrich trusting God elections becomes Federal President of Switzerland
1. January that Hamburg senate selects the past from its centerFinancial senator Paul Nevermann (SPD) had withdrawn to the new first mayor and thus to the successor from max of Brauer, that on the day before
3. January: Completion of the diplomatic relations between Cuba and the USA
19. January: Office deliveryof US president Dwight D. Eisenhower at John F. Kennedy
6. February: Cyprus becomes member in the UNESCO
23. February: Public service - the employers of the German Federal Republic agree upon the federal employee wage agreement with the trade unions (ASKED).
15. March: Prime minister Hendrik FrenschVerwoerd announces the withdrawal of South Africa from the Commonwealth . The withdrawal takes place to 31. May
18. March: Franz Josef bunch becomes new chairmen of the CSU
17. April: Of the USA steered invasion in the pig bay (Cuba)
18. April: Culture agreement between Germany and Afghanistan. Into force since that 14. June 1963
27. April: Sierra Leone becomes independently
27. April: Culture agreement between Germany and the Netherlands. Into force since that 21. April 1962
30. May: Dominican republic. Death of the dictator Trujillo
31. May: South Africa (before South African union) becomes the republic, a head of state (before Queen Elizabeth II.) Charles Robert Swarts 3 becomes as
a president. June: Summit Kennedy and Khrushchev in Vienna
12. June: Activists release committee South Tyrol blow up current masts in Bozen. Their goal is the autonomy of South Tyrol
19. June: Kuwait becomes independently
20. July: Kuwait becomes member of the Arab league
13. August: Commencement of construction that Berlin wall
27. August: Contract over the culture relations between Germany and the Netherlands
11. September: It begins the armed rebellion in south Kurdistan under Barzani, which becomes gradually a people movement of national release. The IraqiAir Force begins with substantial bombardment of Kurdish villages
17. September: With the election to the Bundestag 1961 the CDU loses their absolute majority
18. September: Acting UN-Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld falls under mysteriösen circumstances with a peace mission in the Congo. Its successorbecomes Sithu U Thant
27. September: Sierra Leone becomes member at the United Nations
28. September: the United Arabic Republic between Egypt and Syria separates after withdrawal of Syria on
1. October: Independence west of Cameroon from Great Britainand combination with before times French east Cameroon
3. October: Ireland becomes member in the UNESCO
27. October: Mauritania becomes member at the United Nations
27. October: Mongolia becomes member at the United Nations
30. October: Syriabecomes member in the ILO (international Labour Organization)
30. October: On the Russian island Nowaja Semlja is ignited the Zar bomb, the strongest ever ignited hydrogen bomb
9. November: Culture agreement between Germany and Pakistan. Into force since that 30. December 1962
12. November: Stalingrad is renamed in Wolgograd
3. December: Albania breaks the relations with the Soviet Union starting from
9. December: Sansibar and Tanganyika close to Tanzania together
14. December: United Republic of Tanzania becomes member with that United Nations
16. December: Establishment of Umkhonto incoming goods Sizwe, the militant arm of the African national Congress, that against the apartheid in South Africa used itself
18. December: India occupies the last Portuguese colonial territories from its territory
20. December: Dominican republic. River 12 supplies

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to science and technology with the first nuclear power station of Germany in bald at
the Main. April: First manned space flight of history starts: The space cap Wostok with that Cosmonauts Juri Gagarin on board
after thousands admitted that to cases of deformation Dysmelie 1957 of the Stolberger company Grünenthal on the market contergan brought of the market are taken
5. May: As 1. American flies Alan Shepard to the universe

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culture

20. May: Premiere of the opera Elegy for Young Lovers of Hans's Werner Henze in Schwetzingen
8. September: Enterprise Stardust of Karl harsh ore Scheer appears as No. 1 of the series of Perry Rhodan
25. September: Premiere thatOpera Alkmene of Giselher sticks at the German opera Berlin
15. October: Premiere of the opera Leonce and Lena of briefly Schwaen at the German opera Berlin
17. December: Premiere of the opera the long Weihnachtsmahl of Paul Hindemith toNational theatre in Mannheim

max of freshness writes the play „to Andorra “, which plays however in a fictitious, and not the material country Andorra. More for this see to Andorra (drama)
Exquisite wine - harvest in Bordeaux
Perry Rhodan (today most successful Science Fiction and booklet novel series of the world)for the first time first
execution of the federal competition appears our village is to become more beautiful - our village has future.

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environment

11. September: The World Wide find for Nature (WWF) is created in Switzerland

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Disasters

15. February: Brussels, Belgium. Crash Boeing 707 with the approach flight. All 72 persons on board died, likewise a person of the ground personnel
11. July: Airport stacking clay/tone, Denver, Colorado, the USA. One DC-8 United Airlines with 129 humans on board, had a hydraulic problem during the flight. During the forced landing on the airport to stacking clay/tone two tires burst and the airplane caught to actually turn and caught fires. The fire fighting andRescue of the persons was begun by an understaffed and badly equipped department of the airport. On consultation of the urban fire-brigade or on an assistance request to itself the basis of the U.S. in the proximity. One did without to air Force. Seven monthsbefore the disaster a supervisor had stated that the airport fire-brigade and the emergency equipment were insufficient. In particular it criticized the insufficient Wasserkapazität and the missing foam fire extinguishing system. The urban officials von Denver praised nevertheless successes and efforts of the airport fire-brigade. 17 humansdied (one of it of the ground personnel), 84 humans came with injuries of it
12. July: Casablanca, Morocco. Crash Czech Ilyushin of a Il-18
16. July: Azul, Brazil. Crash Boeing 707 the Aerolineas Argentinas
1. September: A Lockheed L-049 of the TWA fell with Hinsdale, Illinois, the USA. 78 of the 89 persons died thereby
10. September: With the large price of Italy the German running driver count Berghe von Trips has an accident deadly. Also 16Spectators die
10. September: Shannon, Ireland. Crash of a DC-6 of the President airlines
12. September: Rabat, Morocco. Crash of a Caravelle of the air France
10. September: Flight Duesseldorf: The USA, falls during the intermediate stopin Ireland off. 83 dead ones, of it 65 Germans
31. October: the hurricane Hattie destroys the capital of Belize
1. November: Douglas a DC-7C of the Brazilian airline Panair DO Brasil fell with the approach flight on Recife, Brazil. Everything45 persons are killed thereby
8. November: Smelling moon, Virginia, the USA. Crash of a Lockheed Constellation that imperially airlines
30. November: Sydney, Australia. A Vickers Viscount set Australia fell due to strong turbulencesSydney off. All 15 passengers died