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The Hockey Hall of Fame-which is home to the Stanley Cup as well as a fine collection of hockey artifacts-opened in Toronto.Mickey Mantle became the seventh MLB player to hit 400 home runs.In the year 1961, Willie Mays became the ninth player in MLB history to hit four home runs in one game.The Boston Celtics were the NBA champs, the New York Yankees won the World Series, and the Chicago Blackhawks clinched the Stanley Cup.TWA showed the first in-flight movie- By Love Possessed, starring Lana Turner.The world’s first revolving restaurant opened atop Seattle’s Space Needle.The element lawrencium (atomic number 103) was discovered at the University of California, Berkeley.Record-high temperatures were recorded in San Francisco (106☏), Spokane (108☏), and in Harbor Dam, Washington (118☏).1,400 American-backed Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro launched “a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.”.Construction of the Berlin Wall began in East Germany.Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit the Earth.The United Kingdom applied for membership in the Common Market.President Kennedy advised Americans to build fallout shelters “in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.”.Alan Shepherd became the first American to travel into space, when the Freedom 7 Mercury spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral, “and flew a suborbital trajectory lasting 15 minutes and 22 seconds.”.He also asked Congress to approve an aid program for Latin America, which came to be known as the Alliance for Progress. President Kennedy established the Peace Corps as a new agency within the Department of State.The United States broke diplomatic ties with Cuba.The Amendment was originally passed by the 86th Congress on June 16, 1960, but also needed to be ratified by at least 38 states. Constitution-which gives the citizens of Washington, DC the right to vote in presidential elections-was approved by the requisite number of states. In 1961, the 23rd Amendment to the U.S.The two major causes for the economic downturn were a “rolling adjustment” in several major industries, most notably automobiles, and the Fed’s tight monetary policy. From April 1960 to February 1961, the United States slipped into a 10-month recession, during which time the GDP declined by 2.4% and unemployment increased to nearly 7%.Here is a summary of what took place in 1961: