We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that
we find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
July 4, 1961
Birthdays:
Melville Island, NWT - First oil-drilling rig in Arctic
unloaded in preparation for drilling on Melville Island.
August 12th Building of the Berlin Wall begins.
History would again be changed when it comes
down
President John F. Kennedy sent the US on it's way to the moon.
Mercury 3
Liftoff of America's first human space
mission
Date: May 5, 1961 Crew: Alan B. Shepard Jr. Spacecraft: Freedom 7 Duration: 15 minutes, 28 seconds Flight log:
America's first human space flight.
The
Redstone rocket ignited at 9:34 a.m. and shot Shepard 116 miles high and 302 miles down
range from Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft reached a speed of 5,100 mph before plopping
into the Atlantic Ocean, 15 minutes after liftoff. 23 days earlier Soviet Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin beat Shepard
into space, for the first human into space.
Bob Dylan's first New York City appearance at Gerde's Folk City (September
11)
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In America there are two classes of travel—first class and with children. Robert Benchley (1889–1945), U.S. humorous writer. Quoted in:
The Algonquin Wits (ed. by Robert E. Drennan, 1968).
23 days earlier Soviet Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin beat Shepard
into space, for the first human into space.
