November 1961

Thursday 09:

Neil A. Armstrong records a world record speed in a jet plane of 6,587km/h flying a X-15.

Monday 13:

Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.

Wednesday 15:

Roger Maris is voted the American League MVP (baseball)

Sunday 19:

Michael Rockefeller, son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles near Atsj, Papua New Guinea.

Wednesday 29:

Mercury-Atlas 5 is launched with Enos the chimp aboard (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).