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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1961


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 4 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist
  • January 9 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer
  • January 10 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
  • January 11 - Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
  • January 14 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
  • January 17 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
  • January 21 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887)
  • January 24 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
  • January 26 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)
  • February 2 - Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905)
  • February 3 - Viscount Dunrossil, Australian governor-general (b. 1893)
  • February 17 - Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1897)
  • February 20 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
  • February 22 - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
  • February 26 - King Mohammed V of Morocco, (b. 1909)
  • March 3 - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
  • March 6 - George Formby, British comedian and singer (b. 1904)
  • March 8 - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)
  • March 16 - Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)
  • March 17 - Susanna M. Salter, Mayor of Argonia
  • April 4 - Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873)
  • April 6 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist
  • April 9 - King Zog of Albania, (b. 1895)
  • April 13 - John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (b. 1935)
  • April 29 - Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
  • May 4 - Anita Stewart, American film actress (b. 1895)
  • May 6 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
  • May 13 - Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
  • May 16 - George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (b. 1881)
  • May 20 - Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915)
  • May 30 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
  • May 31 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
  • June 2 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
  • June 6 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
  • June 9 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
  • June 15 - Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
  • June 16 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
  • June 17 - Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
  • June 22 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
  • June 30 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (b. 1873)
  • July 1 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
  • July 2 - Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
  • July 6 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
  • July 6 - Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
  • July 12 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
  • July 15 - John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
  • July 17 - Ty Cobb, baseball player (b. 1886)
  • August 8 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (b. 1894)
  • August 11 - Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer actor and director (b. 1910)
  • August 16 - Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Modern Urdu (b. 1870)
  • August 20 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist
  • August 30 - Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
  • September 3 - Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
  • September 10 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
  • September 10 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
  • September 12 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
  • September 18 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist
  • September 22 - Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
  • September 25 - Frank Fay American actor, (b. 1897)
  • September 30 - Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician
  • October 4 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer
  • October 11 - Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
  • October 14 - Paul Ramadier, French politician (b. 1888)
  • October 14 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)
  • October 18 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
  • November 2 - James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
  • November 13 - Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr.
  • November 15 - Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b.1883)
  • November 16 - Sam Rayburn, U.S. Speaker of the House (b. 1882)
  • November 25 - Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866)
  • December 6 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)
  • December 13 - Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)
  • December 20 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904)
  • December 20 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
  • December 23 - Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (b. 1910)
  • December 25 - Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
  • December 25 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1888)

Events
  • January 3 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
  • January 3 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers.
  • January 8 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
  • January 17 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".
  • January 25 - In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
  • January 26 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
  • January 31 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2
  • February 12 - U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
  • February 14 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
  • February 15 - Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, with the entire United States Figure Skating team, several coaches and family.
  • February 16 - Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
  • February 27 - The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
  • March 1 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
  • March 1 - Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
  • March 3 - Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
  • March 15 - South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • March 29 - The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections.
  • March 30 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
  • April 11 - The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
  • April 12 - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
  • April 17 - Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA finances and trains Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
  • April 18 - CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
  • April 19 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
  • April 20 - Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US troops against Cuba.
  • April 23 - Algiers putsch by French generals.
  • April 24 - The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged.
  • April 25 - Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
  • April 27 - Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
  • May 1 - The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
  • May 4 - American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
  • May 5 - The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
  • May 9 - Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
  • May 14 - American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
  • May 14 - Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix.
  • May 19 - Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
  • May 21 - American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
  • May 24 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
  • May 24 - Cyprus enters the Council of Europe.
  • May 25 - Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.
  • May 25 - King Hussein of Jordan marries Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Gardiner).
  • May 28 - Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
  • May 31 - Republic of South Africa created.
  • June 16 - Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
  • June 17 - The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
  • June 19 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
  • July 4 - Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skørping in Denmark
  • July 20 - French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
  • July 21 - Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission
  • July 23 - The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) is founded in Nicaragua.
  • July 25 - In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
  • July 31 - At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
  • August 6 - Cosmonaut Gherman Titov makes the second successful manned orbital flight for the (USSR).
  • August 13 - The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
  • August 15 - Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
  • August 15 - Keiyo Road is specified as the first driveway in Japan.
  • August 28 - Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
  • September 1 - The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate
  • September 5 - The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
  • September 10 - Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
  • September 11 - Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
  • September 11 - Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest storm ever to hit the state.
  • September 15 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
  • September 18 - U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • September 19 - Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
  • September 21 - Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
  • September 28 - A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
  • October 1 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.
  • October 1 - Baseball: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees engage in an epic battle to break Babe Ruth's single season home run record of 60 in 1927. Maris ends up hitting his 61st against the Boston Red Sox, passing Ruth
  • October 17 - Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.
  • October 27 - NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
  • October 29 - Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
  • October 30 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield to reduce fallout over the Soviet Union.
  • October 30 - Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
  • October 31 - In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.
  • November 13 - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
  • November 29 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission
  • December 1 - The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
  • December 2 - In a nationally-broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
  • December 9 - The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with him being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
  • December 9 - Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
  • December 15 - In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
  • December 17 - History of Goa: Operation Vijay
  • December 18 - Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea.
  • December 19 - India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
  • December 31 - The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion USD in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.


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