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s, Kan City, Liberty Memorial rededication; has half-hr meeting with H S Truman and tours Truman Library with him; illus
LONDON, Nov. 10 -- Britain's Foreign Secretary emphasized tonight the Government's reliance on negotiation as a means of settling disputes over Berlin and other questions with the Soviet Union.
Atlas rocket with monkey and other live matter in nose cone destroyed less than 1 min after launching, Canaveral; illus
SAC expands B-52 air alert to N Pole area and across Atlantic
Brig Gen Betts of AEC says tests would spur 'significant advances' in weapons design, s, Amer Engineers Soc; says any program will seek to modernize arms; says tests could lead to 'surprises,'
1961Yuri Milner, Russian-born entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist[ā ]
Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner is a Soviet-born Israeli entrepreneur, investor, physicist and scientist. He is a co-founder and former chairperson of internet company Mail.Ru Group, and a founder of investment firm DST Global. Through DST Global, Milner is an investor in Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Spotify, Byju's, Flipkart, Wish, JD, Alibaba, Nu Bank, and many other enterprises.
1961BehiƧ Erkin, Turkish colonel and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (born 1876)[ā ]
BehiƧ Erkin was a Turkish career officer, Armenian genocide perpetrator, first director (1920ā1926) of the Turkish State Railways, nationalized under his auspices, statesman and diplomat of the Turkish Republic. He was Minister of Public Works, 1926ā1928, and deputy for three terms; and an ambassador. He served as Turkey's ambassador to Budapest between 1928ā1939, and to Paris and Vichy between August 1939-August 1943.
1961Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.[ā ]
The Kindu Massacre, or Kindu Atrocity, took place on 11 or 12 November 1961 in Kindu Port-Ćmpain, in the Congo-LĆ©opoldville. Thirteen Italian airmen who were members of the United Nations Operation in the Congo who were sent to deal with the Congo Crisis were killed and eaten by locals.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[ā ]