to the distress of Russell ... police took no action on this occasion." After 22 years of publication, the British comic strip Radio Fun was merged into Buster. Kwame Nkrumah laid the foundation stone of the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute in Winneba, Ghana. The remains of the former USS South Dakota, a U.S. Navy armored cruiser during World War One and later renamed the USS Huron before being sold for scrap in 1930, sank off the coast of the city of Powell River, British Columbia. A storm caused the stripped-down ship to go down in deep waters in the Salish Sea coastal waterway. February 19, 1961 (Sunday) Belgium's King Baudouin dissolved Parliament and ordered new elections to be conducted on March 26. A seven-year-old boy in Arizona survived a fall into an irrigation well and was rescued after ranch employees tied together multiple ropes. Harry Stage had broken both legs and his pelvis after falling through the pipe. Born: Justin Fashanu, English footballer, in Hackney, London (died 1998) February 20, 1961 (Monday) Jerry Garcia, an 18-year old drifter who had been discharged from the U.S. Army, survived a car accident in Palo Alto, California. He would later describe the event as "the slingshot for the rest of my life". "Before then I was always living at less than capacity," he would write later. "Then I got serious." Garcia would go on to found the Grateful Dead. Born: Imogen Stubbs, British actress, in Newcastle upon Tyne Died: Percy Grainger, 78, Australian composer Romany Marie, 75, American restaurateur and bohemian personality February 21, 1961 (Tuesday) The African state of Gabon adopted a new constitution. Léon M'ba became President, with significant additional powers. United Nations Security Council Resolution 161 was adopted by a 9–0 vote, authorizing United Nation forces to take "all appropriate measures to prevent the occurrence of civil war in the Congo, including ... the use of force, if necessary, as a last resort". Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) was launched from Cape Canaveral in a test to check maximum heating and its effects during the worst reentry design conditions. The flight closely matched the desired trajectory and attained a maximum altitude of 114.04 statute miles and a range of 1,431.6 statute miles. Inspection of the spacecraft aboard the recovery ship some 55 minutes after launch (actual flight time was 17.56 minutes) indicated that test objectives were met, since the structure and heat