1966 dpa now has a network of 75 foreign correspondents and staff abroad 1967 dpa German Service and picture service transmitting around the clock. Middle Eastern Service in Arabic goes on the air, Latin American Service expanded from 6 to 12 hours a day and English-language service expanded 1960 Khrushchev shoe incident at U.N. 1961 Yuri Gagarin takes off on board "Vostok 1" for 1st manned space orbit Attack on Cuba Work starts on building Berlin Wall 1962 "Spiegel" spy affair 1963 President John F. Kennedy proclaims at Berlin Wall "I am a Berliner" Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas 1964 Mini skirt takes fashion world by storm 1965 Mobutu seizes power in the Congo 1966 Grand coalition government in Germany 1967 Closure of Suez Canal 1968 Thalidomide scandal 1969 Apollo XI: Neil Armstrong is first man to set foot on the Moon 1970 Willy Brandt atones at Warsaw Ghetto