Editing 1961

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== Events ==
* February 4 - Beginning of the Angolan War of Independence.
* February 26 - [[Hassan II of Morocco|Hassan II]] is crowned King of Morocco.
* March 4 - [[Ove Andersson]] kill 1 person and injured 6 others during a school dance.
* April 17 to 20 - The Bay of Pigs invasion: an army of Cuban dissidents trained and funded by the United States invades Cuba in an attempt to depose [[Fidel Castro]]. The invasion fails abysmally when Cuba learns of it ahead of time.
* May 14 - A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob of [[Ku Klux Klan]] members.
* May 16 - The [[Supreme Council for National Reconstruction]] comes to power in South Korea after staging a successful coup.
* May 30 - [[Rafael Trujillo]] is assassinated when his blue 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air is ambushed on a road outside the Dominican capital.
* July 19 - The [[Sandinista National Liberation Front]] is founded.
* September 1 - Beginning of the Eritrean War of Independence.
* September 28 - Syria withdraws from the United Arab Republic.
* Unknown - Imperial Wizard [[Robert Shelton]] unites various [[Ku Klux Klan]] factions to create the [[United Klans of America]].

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 13 - [[Julie Schenecker]] & [[Jeremy Bamber]]
* February 7 - [[Allen West]]
* April 13 - [[Robert William Fisher]]
* April 15 - [[Jesse Timmendequas]]
* May 30 - [[David Mack]]
* July 3 - [[Westley Allan Dodd]]
* July 24 - [[Joseph Kony]]
* August 13 - [[Cary Stayner]]
* November 25 - [[Buford Furrow]]
* December 1 - [[Armin Meiwes]]
* December 6 - [[Jennifer San Marco]]
* December 24 - [[Illham Aliyev]]
* December 25 - [[Ghislaine Maxwell]]
* Unknown - [[Musa Hilal]]
* Unknown - [[Hibatullah Akhundzada]]

=== Victim births ===
* April 17 - Evelyn Colon
* July 24 - Michael Donald
* August 8 - Lisa Guy
*December 6 - Dennis Jurgens

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* May 30 - [[Rafael Trujillo]]
* July 6 - [[Konstantinos Logothetopoulos]]
* August 27 - [[Hermann Becker-Freyseng]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* January 17 - Patrice Lumumba