December 1961
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The following events occurred in December 1961:
December 11, 1961: Three-judge panel in Israel announces guilty verdict in trial of former German general Adolf Eichmann
December 28, 1961: Edith Wilson, "The First Woman U.S. President", dies at 89
U.S. Department of Defense mandates fallout shelter signs for all designated public shelters in event of nuclear war
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January 1961
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The following events occurred in January 1961:
January 20, 1961: Kennedy inaugurated as 35th U.S. President
January 17, 1961: Outgoing U.S. President Eisenhower warns against the "military-industrial complex"
January 24, 1961: Nuclear bomb accidentally dropped on Goldsboro, NC
January 1, 1961: British farthing, worth 1⁄4 a penny, discontinued after 600 years