1961 year quiz

People, events etc from 1961

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Belgium and the US stand accused in murder of this leftist African leader	Patrice Lumumba
This ballet great defects to the West	Rudolf Nureyev
Construction starts on this divisive German edifice	Berlin Wall
Kennedy announces goal of putting man here by end of decade	The moon
This indomitable Gaul first gets a book	Asterix

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Police kill Algerian protesters and fling their bodies into the river in this city	Paris
A CIA invasion plot goes very badly wrong on this landing spot	The Bay of Pigs
The Swedish head of this international organisation is killed in a Zambia plane crash	The United Nations
Stalin's eradication from Soviet public life continues with this new city name	Volgograd
This man is globally feted for venturing into space	Yuri Gagarin

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