following their return to Liverpool from Hamburg, George Harrison's first appearance at the venue. Died: Millard Tydings, 70, American politician February 10, 1961 (Friday) Artist Oskar Kokoschka was made an honorary citizen of Vienna. The Robert Moses Niagara Hydroelectric Power Station went online, completing a project to use Niagara Falls to generate electricity from what was, at the time, the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world, generating 2,400,000 million kilowatts (or 2.4 gigawatts) of electricity per hour. Mission rules for the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3 - Alan Shepard's flight) were published. Revisions were issued on February 27 and April 28, 1961. Measures to be taken for hydrogen-peroxide fuel economy for the Mercury spacecraft attitude control system were studied at a coordination meeting. Items considered were orbital attitude, retroattitude hold sequence, and salvo versus ripple retrorocket firing. Astronaut Virgil Grissom reported that the salvo method had already been proven to be unsatisfactory on the Mercury procedures trainer. Born: George Stephanopoulos, American presidential adviser and television journalist, in Fall River, Massachusetts February 11, 1961 (Saturday) Melbourne Cricket Ground had its largest ever crowd for a cricket match, 90,800 people, attending the test match between Australia and the West Indies. A plebiscite was conducted in the north and south parts of the British Cameroons over whether to join the Federation of Nigeria or the Republic of Cameroon that had recently become independent of France. Residents of the Southern Cameroons voted 233,571 to 97,741 in favor of union with Cameroon, while in the Northern Cameroons, the result was 146,296 to 97,659 in favor of integration with Nigeria. Robert C. Weaver became the first African-American to lead a major U.S. government agency, becoming Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency on appointment by President Kennedy. When the HHFA was raised to cabinet-level status on January 18, 1966, Weaver became the first African-American cabinet member, under President Lyndon Johnson, as the first U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Died: Kate Carew, 91, American caricaturist February 12, 1961 (Sunday) Eight days after launching the seven-ton Sputnik 5, the U.S.S.R. used the orbiting satellite as a launch platform from which to fire a rocket carrying the interplanetary space probe, Venera 1, towards the planet Venus. The U.S. had launched Pioneer V toward Venus in March. Contact with the satellite was lost after it traveled , but the probe came within of the second planet, and is