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Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head is published.
Shelagh Delaney's play A Taste of Honey premieres.
Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung dies.
Goya's portrait of the duke of Wellington is stolen from the National Gallery in London.
Francois Truffaut's film Jules et Jim premieres.
Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is published.
Jan.
British physicist Sir John Cockcroft wins the 1961 Atoms for Peace Award.
Jan.
French voters endorse plan for Algerian self-determination.
2 Jan.
Soviets begin exchanging old rubles for new, revalued ones at a rate of ten to one.
3 Jan.
The United States announces it has severed diplomatic ties with Cuba.
17 Jan.
Deposed Congolese premier Patrice Lumumba is murdered.
31 Jan.
Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns.
The Soviet Union places a spacecraft carrying a dog in orbit around the earth.
12 Apr.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to orbit the earth.
17-20 Apr.
At Cuba's Bay of Pigs...
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