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October 27-28, 1961: U.S. tanks and Soviet tanks face off for 16 hours at the border between East and West Berlin Tensions ran high at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961 as Easterners fled to West, Berlin Wall went up.jpg
October 27–28, 1961: U.S. tanks and Soviet tanks face off for 16 hours at the border between East and West Berlin

The following events occurred in October 1961:

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October 1, 1961 (Sunday)

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Maris

October 2, 1961 (Monday)

October 3, 1961 (Tuesday)

Laura, Rob and Richie of the Petrie family on The Dick Van Dyke Show Dick Van Dyke Petrie family 1963.JPG
Laura, Rob and Richie of the Petrie family on The Dick Van Dyke Show

October 4, 1961 (Wednesday)

October 5, 1961 (Thursday)

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October 7, 1961 (Saturday)

October 8, 1961 (Sunday)

October 9, 1961 (Monday)

October 10, 1961 (Tuesday)

October 11, 1961 (Wednesday)

October 12, 1961 (Thursday)

October 13, 1961 (Friday)

October 14, 1961 (Saturday)

October 15, 1961 (Sunday)

October 16, 1961 (Monday)

October 17, 1961 (Tuesday)

A memorial plaque for the Algerians killed in the massacre Aubervilliers passerelle de la fraternite & plaque retuschiert.jpg
A memorial plaque for the Algerians killed in the massacre

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October 21, 1961 (Saturday)

October 22, 1961 (Sunday)

October 23, 1961 (Monday)

October 24, 1961 (Tuesday)

October 25, 1961 (Wednesday)

October 26, 1961 (Thursday)

October 27, 1961 (Friday)

October 28, 1961 (Saturday)

October 29, 1961 (Sunday)

October 30, 1961 (Monday)

October 30, 1961: 50-megaton Tsar Bomba, largest ever, tested Tsar Bomba Revised.jpg
October 30, 1961: 50-megaton Tsar Bomba, largest ever, tested

October 31, 1961 (Tuesday)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cuban Missile Crisis</span> 1962 confrontation between the US and USSR

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis lasted from 16 to 28 October 1962. The confrontation is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Berlin Crisis of 1961</span> Cold War incident in divided Berlin

The Berlin Crisis of 1961 was the last major European political and military incident of the Cold War concerning the status of the German capital city, Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany. The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall.

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