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The Nation 1961
 Eisenhower's Farewell
Address to the Nation January 17, 1961
"In
the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition
of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous
rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
John F. Kennedy is inaugurated President of the
United States.
President
John F. Kennedy delivers the first live news conference,
establishes the Peace Corps, announces his goal to put a man
on the Moon before 1970 with the Apollo Program and sends
18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
Category 4 Hurricane Carla made landfall between Port O'Connor and Port Lavaca,
Texas with a storm surge of 22 feet penetrating 10 miles inland.
The 23rd Amendment to the United States Constitution is enacted, permitting the
District of Columbia to choose Electors for President and Vice
President. Fastest passage on record proposed on June 17, 1960
and ratified by the states on March 29, 1961.
President Kennedy
advises the "Prudent Family" to have a Bomb Shelter.
Nobel
Prizes 1961
Physics - Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
Chemistry - Melvin Calvin
Physiology or Medicine - Georg von Békésy
Literature - Ivo Andric
Peace - Dag
Hammarskjöld - awarded posthumously
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The World 1961
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first
human in space. American Alan Shepard follows a few months later.
Iraqi president Abdul Karim Kassem announces
his intent to annex Kuwait. The
United Kingdom sends troops to protect
Kuwait.
Soviet and
American tanks standoff at Checkpoint Charlie as tensions build in Cold War in Berlin, Germany.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins.
It ends two days later in failure.
The Soviet
Union detonates the biggest explosion in history over Novaya Zemlya.
Adolf
Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to
hang which is carried the next year.
Class of 1961
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