Polaris submarines arrive at Holy Loch in Scotland. Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.March 3 – Hassan II is crowned King of Morocco.March 1 – United States President John F.March– April – Drilling for Project Mohole is undertaken off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico.February 26 – Hassan II is pronounced King of Morocco.The total solar eclipse of February 15, 1961, visible in the southern part of Europe, occurs.Sabena Flight 548 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches.Kennedy warns the Soviet Union to avoid interfering with the United Nations' pacification of the Congo. February 14 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized in Berkeley, California.February 13 – The Congo government announces that villagers have killed Patrice Lumumba.
February 12 – The USSR launches Venera 1 towards Venus.On March 21 they begin regular performances here. February 9 – The Beatles at The Cavern Club: Lunchtime – The Beatles perform under this name at The Cavern Club for the first time following their return to Liverpool from Hamburg, George Harrison's first appearance at the venue.February 5– 9 – In Congo, President Joseph Kasa-Vubu names Joseph Iléo as the new Prime Minister.February 4 – The Portuguese Colonial War begins in Angola.February 1 – The United States tests its first Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile.January 31 – Ham, a 37-pound (17-kg) male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury spacecraft, designed to carry United States astronauts into space.Kennedy delivers his first State of the Union Address.
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January 28 – Supercar, the first family sci-fi TV series filmed in Supermarionation, debuts on ATV in the UK.Acting to halt 'leftist excesses', a junta composed of two army officers and four civilians takes over El Salvador, ousting another junta that had ruled for three months.In it, he announces that the Soviet Union has freed the two surviving crewmen of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance plane, shot down by Soviet flyers over the Barents Sea on J(see RB-47H shot down). Kennedy delivers the first live presidential news conference.
It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country.