From October 3 to 21, the third centrifuge training program was conducted for the Mercury astronauts at the Aviation Medical Acceleration Laboratory.Jânio Quadros was elected President of Brazil for a five-year term, defeating General Henrique Teixeira Lott and Adhemar de Barros.

Recto, 70, Filipino statesman, of a heart attack The first of a series of five bombings by the 'Sunday Bomber' took place in Times Square, New York City.Her findings were published in the British Medical Journal as correspondence on January 14, 1961. On October 2, 'Patient A' had an infection following a nephrectomy, and on the same ward, 'Nurse B' had an infected skin lesion. Patricia Jevons, of the Staphylococcus Reference Laboratory in Colindale, London, found the resistant form in six of 5,440 strains supplied from hospitals in southeastern England. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the antibiotic-resistant form of bacteria known as MRSA, was first isolated.Argentina launched its third television network, El Trece, as Canal 13 began broadcasting.

After several numbers were cut, Camelot made its Broadway debut on December 3.

The Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot, with Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and Robert Goulet, opened at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto, where it was given a test run and found to be too long, running well past midnight.

In 1963, Nigeria became a republic, with Nnamdi Azikwe as its first President. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa became the first Prime Minister, and Nnamdi Azikiwe the Governor General, of the Federation of Nigeria.

Nigeria, formerly a British African colony, became an independent nation of 35,000,000 people, with the new flag hoisted in Lagos at 12:01 a.m.

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