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Retaining the same format, Walt Disney Presents switched networks after twenty-one years, in part to take advantage of NBC’s capability o...

Begun on this day in 1961 immediately following the Soviet Union’s abrogation of a moratorium on testing, pressured by the American congre...

Broadcast on a 12 September episode of The Tonight Show whilst a congressional inquiry and a JAG inquest into the commanding officers inv...

Launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on this day in 1961, the Vostok 2 capsule carried aloft mission pilot Gherman Titov, who became the ...

On this day in 1961, Lee Harvey Oswald was granted an exit visa to the return to the United States after two years of living and working in ...

Arrested on this day in 1961 in Panama City Florida on suspicion of a committing a burglary at pool hall based on the testimony of a single...

Via our faithful chronicler we learn that on this day in 1961 (along with many other events of pith and circumstance) the single by Cha...

Born on this day in 1961 in Endicott, New York, writer, comedian, actor and sister of author and humorist David Sedaris , Amy Louise Sedar...

On this day in 1961, the rocket prototype built in Alabama under the guidance of Wernher von Braun ( previously ) was launched from Cape Ca...

Established on this day by executive order from John F Kennedy and authorised by the US congress later in September, the Peace Corps is ...

Joined by a crowd of some five thousand others, organised and led by philosopher and activist Bertrand Russell ( previously ), the anti-...

  Relations formally severed by the Eisenhower administration on this day in 1961 in the aftermath of the Cuba Revolution, partially restor...

Instigated by a relatively routine control stop that quickly escalated into an international incident following the construction of the Be...

On this day in 1961, US president John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivered his address to the UN General Assembly, amidst the recent and unexpe...

East German Bereitschaftsvolkspolizei (People’s Police Alert Units, a paramilitary regimen of the German Democratic Republic for riot con...

Via Miss Cellania , we are directed to the rather compelling 1961 biblical epic (overshadowed by others in the genre) directed by Richard ...

A direct ancestor of the Laserium light show (collaborating with Henry Jacobs for his display at the Morrison Planetarium), we quite enj...

Via Things magazine , we are directed towards the experimental overland train that the earthmoving company LeTourneau developed for the US ...

Via Nag on the Lake , we are directed to demonstration arranged by Bell Labs researchers Carol Lackbaum, Lou Gerstman and John L Kelly Jr ...

Under the direction of design editor Lou Silverstein in 1961, the New York Times removed its signature diamond period from its nameplate...