Editor Huw Edwards

Events in 1961 and 18-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Huw Edwards

• 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 Huw Edwards (18-8) in history

• Day 18-8 year 1227: The great king of Mongolia, Genghis Khan died in China.
• Day 18-8 year 1587: Virginia Dare becomes the first British child born in the "New World" North America.
• Day 18-8 year 1894: Congress established the Bureau of Immigration, forerunner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
• Day 18-8 year 1920: When Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the three-quarters of the states necessary was achieved and American women got the right to vote.
• Day 18-8 year 1936: Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was shot and killed by Franco's soldiers during the Spanish Civil War .
• Day 18-8 year 1958: Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita was published.
• Day 18-8 year 1963: James Meredith became the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.