Author for children Andy Griffiths

Events in 1961 and 3-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Andy Griffiths

• US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba (Jan. 3).
• 1,200 US-sponsored anti-Castro exiles invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (April 17); the attackers are all killed or captured by Cuban forces.
• East Germany erects the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin to halt flood of refugees (Aug. 13). Background: The Cold War
• USSR detonates 50-megaton hydrogen bomb in the largest man-made explosion in history (Oct. 29). Background: nuclear weapons
• There are 2,000 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background: Vietnam War
• OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) formally constituted.

Birthday Andy Griffiths (3-9) in history

• Day 3-9 year 1189: At London's Westminster Abbey. Richard I, nicknamed "The One with Lion's Heart," is crowned King of England.
• Day 3-9 year 1658: Lord of England Oliver Cromwell passed away at Whitehall Palace, London.
• Day 3-9 year 1783: The Treaty of Paris officially ended the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.
• Day 3-9 year 1939: Great Britain and France declared war on Germany during World War II.
• Day 3-9 year 1967: Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam.
• Day 3-9 year 1974: Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball.
• Day 3-9 year 1976: The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took the first pictures of the planet's surface.
• Day 3-9 year 1978: Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.