Guess The Year No. 9

[Carl]

The following events all took place in the same year, can you guess the year ?

• Russian Yuri Gagarian becomes the first human to journey into outer space aboard his Vostok spacecraft. The flight lasted just 108 minutes as he completed an orbit of the earth

• British espionage series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, is broadcast on UK TV

• Food aid reaches Mogadishu - The RAF begins airlifts to drop food supplies to flood victims in Somalia as aircraft arrive with more than six tons of maize and 2,000 sacks for distribution

• American doo-wop band The Marcels have a UK No. 1 hit with Blue Moon

• Angela Mortimer wins against her fellow Brit, Christine Truman, at the Wimbledon championships

Answer will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[Carl]

ANSWER

The year was 1961.