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1961 -- AGS Archives

  Beginning of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba, April 17, 1961.
  On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit planet earth in space.
  On May 8, 1961, the first practical sea-water conversion plant in the U.S. was opened in Freeport, Texas.