60, 000 people participated in the 1959 march and 150, 000 in the 1961 and 1962 marches.

While at Daniel from 1961 to 1963, Maravich participated in the school's first ever game against a team from an all-black school.

Providence College won the 1961 and 1963 NIT championship and participated in the 1973 and 1987 Final Four, and the 1997 squad advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight.

At its peak, in the mid-1950s, all 70 Air Guard fighter squadrons participated in that program, although that number was reduced to 25 by 1961 due to budget constraints.

After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels ( now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel ) from 1952 to 1956, he participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970.

Seven of the volunteer aviators participated combat operations during the final day of the invasion, on August 19, 1961.

In 1961, she participated as the representative of Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song " Einmal sehen wir uns wieder ", which only reached 13th place with three points.

Units participated in an intensive training program and were operationally ready by December 1961.

Several famous passengers were among the dead, including former world boxing champion Carlos Cruz, his wife and nineteen-month-old son, who were flying to Paris for a bout against Roger Zami ; the wife, daughter and sister of Imbert Barreras, a Dominican Army Brigade General who participated in the plot to kill the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina in Santo Domingo, on May 30, 1961 ; Juan Ramón Loubriel, who had participated in three professional sports leagues in Puerto Rico ( basketball, volleyball and association football ); the then-girlfriend of astrologer Walter Mercado, and most of the members of Puerto Rico's women's national volleyball team, who were returning home after a friendly game against the Dominican Republic's women's national team.

After having participated in the organizing of a parade for independence in the streets of Montreal which took place on February 11, 1961, he gave a conference entitled Le Canada français à l ' heure de la décision as part of a public meeting held at the Gesù on April 4, 1961, during a Stanley Cup semi-final.

He participated in the May 16 coup led by Major General Park Chung-hee in 1961 and served in several high-profile offices, including Chairman of the ruling Democratic Republican Party during Park's tenure of eighteen years.

His wife Bertha ( Rosamond ) Hope ( born November 8, 1936 ) also a pianist, participated in a duo recording with her husband in 1961 and has released albums dedicated to her late spouse's compositions.

Temaru entered the French Navy for three years in 1961 and participated in the Algerian War of Independence.

In 1961 the Romanian Orthodox Church re-entered the World Council of Churches and has since participated in other ecumenical organisations, such as the Conference of European Churches.

In 1961 Tolmatil became part of Cockerill-Ougrée, in 1962 it participated in the founding of Sidmar contributing 1bn Belgian francs of the companies 4. 5bn capital.

He is considered by some to be the original Dallas Cowboy because he had come to the team even before the franchise had adopted a nickname, hired a head coach or participated in either the 1960 NFL Expansion Draft or its first NFL Draft in 1961.

Shinerama is a fundraiser held at universities across Canada every fall in support of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ( CCFF ), first held in 1961 ; Carleton has participated for the past 25 years and has contributed nearly $ 1 million to the cause.

Named by US-ACAN for Conrad G. Merrick, USGS topographic engineer with the Antarctic Peninsula Traverse Party, 1961 – 1962, who participated in the survey of these mountains.

He participated in 27 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 15 July 1961.

He participated in six World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 2 July 1961, scoring no championship points.

He participated in 2 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 15, 1961.

Michael Thackwell ( born 30 March 1961 in Auckland, New Zealand ) is a former racing driver, who participated in a number of prominent racing categories, including Formula One.

* 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower also ordered the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) to overthrow him, which they unsuccessfully tried through multiple assassination attempts and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.

* JMATE: CIA Air operations office for the Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961

* JMBELL: CIA office ( location unknown ) 1961

* JMGLOW: CIA Washington 1961

* JMTIDE: CIA air base in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua 1961

* JMZIP: CIA office ( location unknown ) 1961

A highly classified program of covert actions against North Vietnam known as Operation Plan 34-Alpha, in conjunction with the DESOTO operations, had begun under the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) in 1961.

In 1961 the CIA arranged a trip to the U. S. for further leukemia treatment.

In March 1961, the CIA helped Cuban exiles in Miami to create the Cuban Revolutionary Council ( CRC ), chaired by José Miró Cardona, former Prime Minister of Cuba in January 1959.

On 13 April 1961, Radio Moscow broadcast an English-language newscast, predicting the invasion " in a plot hatched by the CIA " using paid " criminals " within a week.

At about 00: 00 on 17 April 1961, the two CIA LCIs Blagar and Barbara J, each with a CIA ' operations officer ' and an Underwater Demolition Team ( UDT ) of five frogmen, entered the Bay of Pigs ( Bahía de Cochinos ) on the southern coast of Cuba.

On 22 April 1961, President Kennedy asked General Maxwell D. Taylor, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Admiral Arleigh Burke and CIA Director Allen Dulles to form the Cuba Study Group, to report on the lessons to be learned from

In November 1961, CIA inspector general Lyman B Kirkpatrick,

Shortly before leaving office in January 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the creation of the National Photographic Interpretation Center, headed by Arthur C. Lundahl, combining Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), Army, Navy, and Air Force assets to solve national intelligence problems.

Sturgis further testified that while he had often heard of " Eduardo ," a CIA political officer who had been active in the work of the Cuban Revolutionary Council in Miami prior to the Bay of Pigs operation in April 1961, he had never met him and did not know until 1971 or 1972 that " Eduardo " was E. Howard Hunt.

Tad Szulc states that Hunt was asked to assist Dulles in writing a book, The Craft of Intelligence, that Dulles wrote following his involuntary retirement as CIA head in 1961.

The first period began in 1961, when a coalition of high-ranking Dominicans, with assistance from the CIA, assassinated General Rafael Trujillo, the nation's military dictator.

In 1961, after the failed CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba, these assassination attempts, which included hit teams of snipers, trained on Roselli's secret CIA base in the Florida Keys, continued with a vengeance, now with CIA legend William " Wild Bill " King Harvey, taking charge of Roselli's efforts.

He defected with his wife and daughter to the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) via Helsinki on December 15, 1961 taking a train to Haaparanta in the Finnish-Swedish border town where he was flown to the United States via Stockholm and was interviewed by James Jesus Angleton, CIA counter-intelligence director.

The CIDG program was devised by the CIA in early 1961 to counter expanding Viet Cong influence in South Vietnam's Central Highlands.