* 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 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.

In 1961 he participated in a CIA mission to Congo, in which he helped to rescue US citizens from mobs.

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.

They made occasional public appearances together between their breakup and 1961 but were not seen together until a surprise appearance by Martin on Lewis's Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon in 1976 arranged by Frank Sinatra.

Alphonse Floristan Picou ( October 19, 1878 – February 4, 1961 ) was an important very early jazz clarinetist who also wrote and arranged music.

Barnett arranged for the arrest of Freedom Riders in 1961 and then imprisoned them in a brutal prison called Parchman Farm ( now Mississippi State Penitentiary ) in Parchman, Mississippi.

In 1961, John Diefenbaker arranged for the Canadian Parliament to pass the Canadian Bill of Rights.

Severinsen arranged the score for the nudist-themed cult film Nude on the Moon ( 1961 ).

# The first edition was printed by Olympia Press in Paris, in 1961, as number 88 in the Traveller Companion Series and featured 182 pages arranged in 50 chapters of about 8 pages each.

Many of the Ventures ' albums, starting with the Colorful Ventures in 1961, were arranged around a central theme.

In 1961, Mathews arranged the accompaniment of the song " Daisy Bell " for an uncanny performance by computer-synthesized human voice, using technology developed by John Kelly of Bell Laboratories and others.

* A version of the song entitled just ‘ My Bonnie ’ was arranged and recorded during 1961 by Tony Sheridan with musical backing by The Beatles ( at a time before they became famous and who were credited on the recording as the ‘ Beat Brothers ’).

During this period, Mauriat also released several recordings with Les Satellites, where he creatively arranged vocal backing harmony for such albums as Slow Rock and Twist, ( 1961 ), A Malypense ( 1962 ) and Les Satellites Chantent Noel ( 1964 ).

In 1961, he garnered the blessing of the British poet Kathleen Raine who arranged for his first book, The Many Named Beloved, to be published by Victor Gollancz in London.

Instead the Hands of the Cause completed and arranged the interior and it was opened to Bahá ' í pilgrims during 1961.

In 1961 local advocates arranged a visit by state park officials, who agreed that Wildwood Park could be expanded into a state park.

In late 1961 at the second YSA convention, held in Chicago, the SWP central leadership arranged the removal of Wohlforth and Robertson from the YSA on age grounds and replaced the initial majority group with Barry Sheppard and Peter Camejo from Boston, Sheppard as national chairman and Camejo as national secretary.

In April 1961, the Marvelettes ( then known as " The Marvels ") arranged an audition for Berry Gordy's Tamla / Motown label.

If You Go is a 1961 ( see 1961 in music ) album by Peggy Lee, arranged by Quincy Jones.

* 1961 – American civil rights movement: The " Freedom Riders " begin a bus trip through the South.

In January 1961, while on a trip to Mallorca with Gardner, Shah met the English poet Robert Graves.

He was able to make a trip to Normandy in 1961 with Franceschi.

Along with eight other riders, on June 4, 1961 Carmichael made the trip by train from New Orleans, LA to Jackson, MS. Before getting on the train in New Orleans, they encountered white protestors blocking the way.

She also went on several camping trips with friends, visiting important sites in the Southwest, and in 1961, she and others, including photographers Eliot Porter and Todd Webb, went on a rafting trip down the Colorado River about Glen Canyon, Utah.

He was one of the pilots that flew what will likely be the last-ever formation flight of B-17s across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to England ( via Canada, the Azores and Portugal ) in 1961, a trip that involved a near-miss with a submarine, a brawl with KGB agents, and just barely missing ending up in jail in Portugal, an epic trip he chronicled in his book Everything But the Flak.

From 1958 to 1961, the event resumed as a rallying-like round trip at legal speeds with a few special stages driven at full speed, but this was discontinued also.

* 1961: Second trip to Chandigarh.

On Kennedy's first official trip to Canada in May 1961, an unprecedented crowd of 50, 000 turned out to see him.

As QANTAS owned half of TEAL until 1961 ; before then its aircraft only appeared at Whenuapai if chartered by TEAL, or if its aircraft were chartered for a trip across to New Zealand, although it did occasionally appear at Whenuapai between 1956 – 61 with its Super Constellations at peak traffic times.

Photography has played a crucial role throughout Ruscha ’ s career, beginning with images he made during a trip to Europe with his mother and brother in 1961, and most memorably as the imagery for more than a dozen books that present precisely what their titles describe.

Despite his advancing years, Albert was very active in the community in Coronation Street, acting as Chairman of the Over 60s Club in 1961, organising an Over 60s bazaar in 1964 and a trip to the Preston Guild in 1972.

He continued to get them bookings, until he fell out with The Beatles in 1961, over the payment of his ten per cent commission in a later trip to Hamburg.

Diesel-hauled goods trip in 1961