Gerry brings us up to grade 10 here in div. 17.
[Click here to savour 1961's audio!]
Please have a look at the two question marks and see if you can help out with names.
A special look is required at the distinguished chap at the right hand end of the middle row. Now doesn't that look like Ken Hart? Maybe it's Ken's equally dapper but rarely photographed twin, good old Tieless Hart.
Back Row
Derek Melville, Brian Larkey, Kathy Curran, Russ Tyrrell, Linda Brown, Ken Lane, Caroline Oliver, Allan Jones [Borris, 030605], Pat John, Dave Alton, Len McNeely
Middle Row
R. Dicks, Shirley Naylor, Rick Bowering, Diane Boughey, Brian Unwin, Bev Hynds, Peter Arnold, Cheryl Borris, Brian Smith, Wendy Tobin, Eric Gelling, (?), Ken Hart. (?)
Front Row
Alison Mainguy, Bev Taylor, Gerry Hagberg, Veronica Harrison, Jim Pomeroy, Gail Deeks, Derek Hamlet, Linda Morriss, Hilary Ford
The first man in space is Yuri Gagarin (Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин ). He makes his historic flight in this year of 1961.
The Berlin Wall is erected to keep out anti socialist elements.
Lester Pearson becomes Prime Minister.
"Syncom" is orbited, the first Clarke belt occupant.
Deaths in 1963:
January 29 - Robert Frost, (b. 1874)
January 30 - Francis Poulenc, (b. 1899)
February 11 - Sylvia Plath, (b. 1932)
March 4 - William Carlos Williams, (b. 1883)
June 3 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
October 11 - Edith Piaf, (b. 1915)
October 11 - Jean Cocteau, (b. 1889)
November 15 - Fritz Reiner, (b. 1888)
November 22 - Aldous Huxley, (b. 1894)
November 22 - C.S. Lewis, (b. 1898)
December 28 - Paul Hindemith,. 1895)
What else this year?
Ahh, yes, the Bay of Pigs did not set fire to a movement to restore the old régime in Cuba
"The Twist" and yo-yos again
Roger Maris breaks the single season home run record of The Babe.
"The Guns of Navarone", "West Side Story", "The Hustler", "Moon River".
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Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин on the 12th of April rode Vostok I into orbit in a magnificent triumph of technology. He became the first man in space and the first to orbit the earth. His backup pilot on that first flight was one Герман Степанович Титов. Titov would shortly distinguish himself as well in Vostok II.
Here's music suitable for recalling the news footage we saw of the by then Major Gagarin on his appearance in Moscow. The Internationale, brass band and The Internationale, magnificent symphony and chorus. (If you enjoy the great Russian basso tradition, have a listen to Midinght in Moscow the way it should be heard!)
