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NYS Assembly approves Goddard bill authorizing county supervisors bds to create human relations commissions
Patterson KO's Johansson in 6th round after being down twice in 1st
55,000 NY Central, NY,NH&H commuters stalled up to 7 hrs after fire forces NY,NH&H train to stop, Webster Av cut near 194th St, during evening rush; 8 firemen hurt in 2d mishap as another New Haven train fails to stop for red warning signal; Comr Cavanagh starts probe; illus; map
US gives confed plan qualified approval but is displeased by opposition to UN resolution
White House repts $1-billion contract award to Lockheed to develop and build 100 high-speed, long-range turbojet transports; delivery expected by '65
1961Mike Lazaridis, GreekāCanadian businessman and philanthropist, founded BlackBerry Limited[ā ]
Mihal "Mike" Lazaridis is a Greek Canadian businessman, investor in quantum computing technologies, and co-founder of Research In Motion, which created and manufactured the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. In November 2009, Canadian Business ranked Lazaridis as the 11th wealthiest Canadian, with an estimated net worth of CA$2.9Ā billion.
1961A USAF B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California.[ā ]
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its origins to 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established by transfer of personnel from the Army Air Forces with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947. It is the second youngest branch of the United States Armed Forces and the fourth in order of precedence. The United States Air Force articulates its core missions as air supremacy, global integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, rapid global mobility, global strike, and command and control.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[ā ]