Tuesday, January 17, 1961

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The Headlines

Kennedy Selects Seaborg To Be Chairman of A.E.C.; Chemist Received Nobel Prize in 1951 for His Nuclear Research SEABORG CHOSEN TO HEAD THE A.E.C.

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Wonderland by Night

Bert Kaempfert

#1 at the box office

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On This Day

• U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.

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• Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered together with former Minister of Youth and Sports of the Republic of the Congo Maurice Mpolo and former Senator from Kasai Province Joseph Okito in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Benjamin Franklin (1706)
• Muhammad Ali (1942)
• David Lloyd George (1863)
• Anne Brontë (1820)
• Al Capone (1899)

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Tech Check

Space Capsule (Vostok/Mercury), Electric Toothbrush & Industrial Robots (Unimate).

Cost of Living (1960)