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`whenYear` >='-3000'
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1961
Kuwait
became independent from
United Kingdom
on
2/25/1961
...
140763
Sierra Leone
became independent from
United Kingdom
on
4/27/1961
...
145811
Tanzania
became independent from
United Kingdom
on
12/9/1961
...
105044
Barack Obama
was born
on
8/4/1961
in
Honolulu
...
745723
Aretha Franklin
married
Ted White
in
1961
...
713594
Garcia Marquez. Gabriel
wrote
No One Writes to the Colonel
in
1961
...
310152
Gunter Grass
wrote
Cat and Mouse
in
1961
...
287692
Iris Murdoch
wrote
A Severed Head
in
1961
...
276491
J. D. Salinger
wrote
Franny and Zooey
in
1961
...
302876
Janet Frame
wrote
Faces in the water
in
1961
...
301642
Joseph Heller
wrote
Catch-22
in
1961
...
287702
Juan Carlos Onetti
wrote
The Shipyard
in
1961
...
339872
Maya Angelou
met
Vusumzi Make
in
1961
...
715464
Muriel Spark
wrote
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
in
1961
...
339772
Robert Heinlein
wrote
Stranger in a Strange Land
in
1961
...
338752
Stanislav Lem
wrote
Solaris
in
1961
...
338428
Xos? Neira Vilas
wrote
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
in
1961
...
308907
Cuba
entered
Bay of Pigs Invasion
in
1961
...
9447