The following events occurred in September 1961:
September 18, 1961: UN Secretary-General Hammarskjöld killed in plane crash
September 9, 1961: USS Long Beach, world's first nuclear-powered surface ship, commissioned
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Destruction after America's largest evacuation
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