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On August 13, 1961, the East German government began constructing the Berlin Wall to prevent East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin. The wall became a powerful symbol of the Cold War and the division between East and West Germany.
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In April 1961, a failed CIA-backed invasion of Cuba, known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, took place. The invasion aimed to overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist government but ended in defeat for the invading forces.
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On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space aboard the Freedom 7 spacecraft. This flight marked a significant milestone in the U.S. space program.
On Campus
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The Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Savannah District, fills in the Seneca River to force water through newly dug diversion channel west of the Clemson campus. Thus begins the filling of Lake Hartwell, which later leads Southern humorist and newspaperman Lewis Grizzard to observe that "Clemson is Auburn with a lake."
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