1961 year quiz

People, events etc from 1961

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Belgium and the US stand accused in murder of this leftist African leader

Patrice Lumumba

This ballet great defects to the West

Rudolf Nureyev

Construction starts on this divisive German edifice

Berlin Wall

Kennedy announces goal of putting man here by end of decade

The moon

This indomitable Gaul first gets a book

Asterix

Police kill Algerian protesters and fling their bodies into the river in this city

Paris

A CIA invasion plot goes very badly wrong on this landing spot

The Bay of Pigs

The Swedish head of this international organisation is killed in a Zambia plane crash

The United Nations

Stalin's eradication from Soviet public life continues with this new city name

Volgograd

This man is globally feted for venturing into space

Yuri Gagarin

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