What Happened in Nov 1961

Agatha Christie publishes The Pale Horse

The Pale Horse is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 6 1961 and in... Read more

Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 Crashes

Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 was a Lockheed Constellation L-049 four-engine propliner, registration N2737A, chartered by the United States Army... Read more

'Catch-22' is Published

Like all superlative works of comedy - and I am ready to argue that this is one of the most bitterly funny works in the language - Catch-22 is... Read more

Aerolineas Argentinas Flight 322 Crashes

Aerolineas Argentinas Flight 322 was the flight number of a scheduled international passenger flight from Buenos Aires to Trinidad and New York... Read more

President Kennedy Authorizes Operation Mongoose

The Cuban Project (also known as Operation Mongoose or the Special Group or the Special Group Augmented) was a program of CIA covert operations... Read more