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- 06-November-1961, At the age of 100 : The U.S. government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith.
- 31-October-1961, At the age of 81 : Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin Mausoleum.
- 24-January-1961, At the age of 48 : Musician Bob Dylan reportedly makes his way to New York City after bumming a ride in Madison, Wisconsin. Dylan is likely on his way to visit his idol Woody Guthrie. He later finds fame in the Greenwich Village protest folk music scene.
- 21-October-1959, At the age of 92 : In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) opens to the public.
- 25-July-1959, At the age of 87 : The SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours, on the 50th anniversary of Louis Bleriot's first crossing by heavier than air craft.
- 26-February-1959, At the age of 381 : Author Walter Mene throws acid on a Rubens painting in Munich.
- 17-February-1958, At the age of 764 : Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television.
- 04-February-1957, At the age of 129 : The first nuclear-powered submarine, the {{USS{{USSNautilusNautilusSSNSSN571}}, logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional ''Nautilus'' described in Jules Verne's novel ''"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"''.
- 25-February-1956, At the age of 76 : Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin as a "cult of personality."
- 01-June-1952, At the age of 82 : The Roman Catholic Church bans the books of Andre Gide.
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