Editing 1961 (section)

== 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]].