Are you ready to dance daler?
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1961
The year John F. Kennedy became President. Among his goals expressed this year were to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, but he had to contend with the Bay of Pigs fiasco first. A group of civil rights Freedom Riders tried to take their message through a hostile South. Ernest Hemingway died by his own hand in Idaho.Yuri Gagarin became the first human being in space, but Alan Shepard wasn't far behind.
At the movies people saw Exodus, The Guns of Navarone and The Nutty Professor. On TV Mr. Ed and The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered.
And these were songs that were on the radio the year construction of the Berlin Wall began:
But of course!