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unusual facts about April 1961


National Educational Radio Network

With funding from the Ford Foundation, the network began broadcasting on six radio stations on April 3, 1961.



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Baikonur

Starting with Vostok 1 in April 1961, the launch site was given this name to cause confusion and keep the location secret.

Bernard Berkhout

Bernardus Johannes Berkhout (born 18 April 1961, Santpoort, the Netherlands) is a family doctor, best known as a jazz clarinetist.

Bousfer

He had a distinguished career in the Air Force before participating in the Algiers putsch in April 1961 which earned him a death sentence.

Carlos Parente

Carlos Alberto Bastos Parente (born 8 April 1961 in Luanda, Angola) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a central midfielder.

Christopher Landon

Christopher Guy Landon, known as Christopher Landon (29 March 1911 – 26 April 1961) was a British writer of novels and screenplays, best known for his novel Ice Cold in Alex (1957) which he adapted faithfully for the big screen creating one of the most famous of war movies, likewise entitled Ice Cold in Alex (1958).

Dargis

Manohla Dargis (born April 1961), a film critic for The New York Times

Dedham, Maine

Two McDonnell F-101 Voodoo fighters of the 75th Fighter Squadron were scrambled from Dow Air Force Base 22 minutes after midnight on 11 April 1961 to intercept an unidentified aircraft approaching the United States.

Harald Riipalu

Harald Riipalu (born as Harald Reibach) (13 February 1912, St. Petersburg – 4 April 1961, Heckmondwike, Great Britain) was an Estonian military commander and one of four such commanders who earned the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross while serving with the German army during World War II.

Mohammed Inuwa Wushishi

Wushishi joined the army on 21 April 1961, and attended the Nigerian Military Training College, Kaduna and then the Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot in the United Kingdom.

Mophato Monyake

Mophato Moshoete Monyake (born 29 April 1961) is a Lesotho politician with the All Basotho Convention.

Murrison

Andrew Murrison (born 24 April 1961), British Conservative politician

MV Mississippi

Used for inspecting and surveying along rivers, the boat continued in service until April 1961, when the USACE decommissioned it at Memphis, Tennessee.

National Revolutionary Militias

On 17 April 1961, together with the combatants of the Rebel Army and the National Revolutionary Police, the militias confronted and defeated in less than 72 hours 1,500 mercenaries whom the United States financed, armed and trained to invade Cuba at Playa Girón (Giron beach), in what became known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

Peter Bouwknegt

Pier Gerard "Peter" Bouwknegt (born 20 April 1961, Geldrop) is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics at the Australian National University (ANU), and Deputy Director of their Mathematical Sciences Institute.

Pilottone

Diercks himself helped the spread of pilottone in the USA when he was the only Western reporter allowed to shoot in Havanna during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961.

Roberto Cabañas

Roberto Cabañas González (born 11 April 1961 in Pilar, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan professional football player who played as a striker.

Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 31

On 20 April 1961 the wing was given the name "Boelcke", in honor of the World War I Luftstreitkräfte fighter pilot Oswald Boelcke.

TEAL

In April 1961 the Australian government decided to support the wholly Australian-owned Qantas airline and the New Zealand government bought out the Australian government's shareholding, giving New Zealand 100% ownership.