October 1961

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October 27–28, 1961: U.S. tanks and Soviet tanks face off for 16 hours at the border between East and West Berlin.
October 30, 1961: 50-megaton Tsar Bomba, largest nuclear weapon, tested by Soviet Union.

The following events occurred in October 1961: