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Pres Kennedy orders Treas to stop selling free silver and announces he will seek repeal of silver purchase legis; heavy indus demand and dwindling Govt supply linked; speculation on effects
strike continues; Balaguer imposes curfew, orders Govt employes to return to work or face dismissal; promises econ improvements to certain groups; Rodriguez links strike with Communists; Fiallo confs again with him and Balaguer on pol reorgn
H W Baldwin repts Defense Dept advisory com headed by Gen Partridge urges McNamara create over-all comdr for all commands at home and overseas; some Dept experts see step toward gen staff with single chief
ints Pres Kennedy, Hyannis Port, Mass; int pub fully in Izvestia
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1961Kim Delaney, American actress[†]
Kim Delaney is an American actress known for her starring role as Detective Diane Russell on the ABC drama television series NYPD Blue, for which she won an Emmy Award. Early in her career, she played the role of Jenny Gardner in the ABC daytime television drama All My Children. She later had leading roles in the short lived TV drama Philly, part of the first season of CSI: Miami, and the first six seasons of Army Wives. She also appeared in the second and third seasons as reporter Alex Devlin in Tour of Duty.
1961Tom Sizemore, American actor (died 2023)[†]
Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr. was an American actor. Born in Detroit, he started his career with supporting appearances in Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Lock Up (1989), and Blue Steel (1990). The appearances led to more prominent roles in films like Passenger 57 (1992), True Romance (1993), Striking Distance (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), Strange Days (1995), Heat (1995), and The Relic (1997).
1961Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.[†]
Enos was a chimpanzee launched into space by NASA, following his predecessor Ham. He was the only non-human primate to orbit the Earth, and the third hominid to do so after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov. Enos's flight occurred on November 29, 1961.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]