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over 1,000 Viet Cong rebels attack and burn Phuoc Vinh Prov capital, 60 mi N of Saigon, largest rebel assault in civil war; S Vietnam repts heavy casualties
Hammarskjold, Dag
USSR fires 2d rocket 7,500 mi into central Pacific target area; Tass again stresses accuracy; speculation
UN Sec Gen Hammarskjold killed in crash, Ndola, N Rhodesia, on flight from Congo; 12 aides killed, guard H M Julien lone survivor; plane, DC-6B owned by Swedish co but operated by UN, had been damaged in Katanga fighting; Hammarskjold was on way to truce conf with Katanga Pres Tshombe; speculation that crash was not accidental; Julien repts explosions preceded crash
1961Artur Ekert, Polish-British physicist and academic[†]
Artur Konrad Ekert is a British / Polish professor of quantum physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, professorial fellow in quantum physics and cryptography at Merton College, Oxford, Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore and the founding director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT). His research interests extend over most aspects of information processing in quantum-mechanical systems, with a focus on quantum communication and quantum computation. He is best known as one of the pioneers of quantum cryptography.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]