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- From top to bottom, left to right: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to orbit Earth aboard Vostok 1; The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested; Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as one of the most intense storms to hit the U.S.; Disney releases One Hundred and One Dalmatians, revolutionizing animation with its Xerox process and leaving a lasting cultural legacy; Military officer Abdel Karim Zahreddine listens to radios about dissolution of the UAR and separation of Syria; Cuban forces attack Playa Girón during the Bay of Pigs Invasion; Wreckage of Aero Flight 311, which crashed near Kvevlax, Finland, killing 25; Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo was assassinated; Checkpoint Charlie confrontation between U.S. and Soviet tanks during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. (en)
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