1961   News                           

News Headlines
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    		•  Adolf Eichman Goes To Trial In Jerusalem 
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    		•  Russian Astronaut Yuri Gayarin First Man in Space Circles Globe. 
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    		•  Anti-Castro Cubans Fail in Assault At Bay Of Pigs. 
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    		•  First U.S. Manned Flight with Alan Shepard Stays in Space For 15 Minutes. 
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    		•  East Germans Build Berlin Wall, Tensions Rise 
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    		•  JFK Advises "Prudent Family" to Have Bomb Shelter. 
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    		•  Hassan, 31 Is New King Of Marrocco 
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    		•  First US Solid-Fuel Missile Is Launched 
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    		•  Bay Of Pigs Landing Is Fiasco 
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    		•  Castro Makes Cuba Socialist; Ends Vote 
    In The News
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    		•  Yo-Yo's become national craze 
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    		•  Ray Krock opens 200 McDonalds in Southern California 
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    		•  Earnst Hemingway dies of self-inflicted gunshot  
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    		•  Dow Jones high of 734 low of 610 
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    		•  Kennedy creates the Peace Corps. 
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    		•  X-15 rocket plane reached a record altitude of 31.25 miles  
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    		•  Forty more "Dead Sea " scrolls are found in Palestine 
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    		•  Author Ernest Hemingway commits suicide with shotgun 
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    		•  Thousands flee East Germany before it is to late as Berlin Wall goes up

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1962   News                           

    News Headlines
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    		•  Kennedy Orders Blockade of Cuba to Prevent Soviet Missile Deployment 
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    		•  John Glen First American to Orbit Earth, 3 Revolutions 
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    		•  130 Die in Paris as Boeing 707 Crashes 
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    		•  Federal Troops Go To U. of Mississippi To Register First Black, James Meredith 
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    		•  Marilyn Monroe Dies of Over Dose 
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    		•  Two OF The Fling Wallendas Killed During High Wire Act In Detroit 
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    		•  Peter O'Toole To Star In Lawrence Of Arabia 
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    		•  U-2 Pilot Gary Powers Traded For Spymaster Rudolf Abel 
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    		•  JFK Orders Total Ban On Cuban Products 
    In The News
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    		•  Adolf Eichman Hanged in Jerusalem 
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    		•  Author William Faulkner dies. 
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    		•  Mariner II is first interplanetary probe, goes around Venus 
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    		•  My Fair Lady, Longest running musical closes after 2,717 performances 
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    		•  Diet Right and Tab make there first appearance. 
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    		•  Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points In one game 
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    		•  Conservatives hold rally for Goldwater 
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    		•  Cuba sentences Bay of Pigs invaders, asks for ransom 
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    		•  Kennedy gets steel companies to roll back prices