Ernest Hemingway used a shotgun to commit suicide in 1961.
Ansgar is a Germanic given name, composed of the elements ans "god", and gar "spear".
As Ansgar waits for his father to finish his praying, his father is reading Genesis 15:1: "... I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."
The construction of the Berlin Wall was the result of The Berlin Crisis of 1961 which was the last major politic-military European incident of the Cold War about the occupational status of the German capital city, Berlin, and of post-World War II Germany. The Berlin Crisis started when the USSR launched an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of all armed forces from Berlin, including the Western armed forces in West Berlin. The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. Covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government, the operation took place at the height of the Cold War, and its failure led to major shifts in international relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union.