HISTORICAL DATA-1961:









  •  JANUARY

  •  FEBRUARY

  •  MARCH

  •  APRIL

  •  MAY

  •  JUNE

  •  JULY

  •  AUGUST:    In Europe on August 13 of this year the German Democratic Republic (GDR-Communist East Germany) reacts to the recent surge in people fleeing from its territory  to West Germany by closing all border crossing points. The government imposes stricter border controls than had existed previously, and it orders the start of construction of a concrete wall between the eastern and western sectors of the city of Berlin.  (SOURCE:  U.S. ARMY BORDER OPERATIONS IN GERMANY 1945-1983 by William E. Stacy Headquarters U.S. Army, Europe and 7th Army, 1984, pg. 115).

  •  SEPTEMBER

  •  OCTOBER

  •  NOVEMBER:       

  •  DECEMBER:    By December 31 of this year more than 15,000 jobs have been created in Quebec City, Cabada since 1951 in the social service, commercial, industrial, personnel, and public sectors, and close to 10,000 jobs in the financial, business, and communication sectors.  (Source:  AN HISTORICAL GUIDE TO QUEBEC-Yves Tessier ((Paperback)), pg. 27).

  • FULL YEAR:    For this whole year the number of jobs created by the different public sectors and for defense work in the Metropolitan Quebec City area is 18,196. 

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard publishes his popular story  "The Voice of the Dolphins".  (Source:  The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes, ((paperback)), pg. 22). 

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year Joseph Charles publishes his book on "The Origins of the American Party System", which deals with the Federalist and Democratic Republican parties.  (Source:  THE AMERICAN NATION...TO 1877-Second Edition ((Paperback)), John A. Garraty, Supplementary Reading List, pp. 227-228).

  •  (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year in Africa Julius K. Nyerere guides the former British Trust Territory of Tanganyika to independent sovereignty as the nation of Tanzania. At this time there are some 120 or more different ethnic groups living within the borders of this new nation, and melding them all into one state is a difficult task.  (Source: Funeral Notice, New York TIMES, Friday, October 22, 1999, pg. L  C23).

  • (NO SPECIFC DATE):    At some time during this year the population of the continent of Europe (incluiding the U.S.S.R.) is estimated to be 648 million persons.  (Source:   ECONOMICS-THEORY AND PRACTICE, SECOND EDITION, Ulmer, page 113).    

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year the population of the continent of Asia, not counting the U.S.S.R., is estimated to be 1 billion,721 million persons.  (Source:  ECONOMICS-THEORY AND PRACTICE, SECOND EDITION, Ulmer, page 113).  

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE:    At some time during this year the populaton of the African continent is estimated to be 261 million persons.   (Source:  ECONOMICS-THEORY AND PRACTICE, SECOND EDITION, Ulmer, page 113)

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year the population of Central and South America is estimated to be 218 million persons.  (Source:   ECONOMICS-THEORY AND PRACTICE, SECOND EDITION, Ulmer, page 113).    

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during  this year the whole  population of  the earth is estimated to be 3 billion,069 million persons.  (Source:  ECONOMICS-THEORY AND PRACTICE, SECOND EDITION, Ulmer, page 113). 

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year the annual  birth rate per 1,000 persons in Mexico is estimated to  be 44.9. The annual death rate per 1,000 persons is estimated to be 10.6. Therefore, the crude rate of natural population increase per 1 ,000 persons in Mexico is estimated to be 34.3.  (Source:  ECONOMICS-THEORY AND PRACTICE, SECOND EDITION, Ulmer, page 118).      

  • (NO SPECFIC DATE):    At some time during this year the annual birth rate per 1,000 population in Burma is estimated to be  38.5; the annual death rate per 1,000 population  is estimated to be 18.4. This means that the crude rate of natural population increase per year in Burma (excluding the effects of immigration and  ex-migration) is estimatedto be 20.1 additional persons per 1,000 persons already living there.  (Source:  ECONOMICS-THEORY AND PRACTICE, SECOND EDITION, Ulmer, page 118).    

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year the Gallo Brothers and their gang  of Brooklyn, New York begin a bloody and protracted revolution against their Mafia bosses in the organized-crime family of Joseph Profaci.  (Source:  NEW YORK TIMES, February 5, 1970, page 41).

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