With funding from the Ford Foundation, the network began broadcasting on six radio stations on April 3, 1961.
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Starting with Vostok 1 in April 1961, the launch site was given this name to cause confusion and keep the location secret.
Bernardus Johannes Berkhout (born 18 April 1961, Santpoort, the Netherlands) is a family doctor, best known as a jazz clarinetist.
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 Alberto Bastos Parente (born 8 April 1961 in Luanda, Angola) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a central midfielder.
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).
Manohla Dargis (born April 1961), a film critic for The New York Times
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 (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.
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 Moshoete Monyake (born 29 April 1961) is a Lesotho politician with the All Basotho Convention.
Andrew Murrison (born 24 April 1961), British Conservative politician
Used for inspecting and surveying along rivers, the boat continued in service until April 1961, when the USACE decommissioned it at Memphis, Tennessee.
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.
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.
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 González (born 11 April 1961 in Pilar, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan professional football player who played as a striker.
On 20 April 1961 the wing was given the name "Boelcke", in honor of the World War I Luftstreitkräfte fighter pilot Oswald Boelcke.
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.