What happend in 1961

Events
DateEvent
September 12 1961 Ana-Maria Avram Was Born
1961 Nicolas Bacri Was Born
1961 John J. Becker Died
1961 York Bowen Died
1961 Unsuk Chin Was Born
1961 Guido Alberto Fano Died
1961 John Fernström Died
1961 Walter Goetze Died
November 26 1961 Alexander Goldenweiser Died
1961 Percy Grainger Died
1961 Harry Gregson-Williams Was Born
1961 Jesús Guridi Died
1961 Daron Hagen Was Born
1961 Marc-André Hamelin Was Born
1961 Jake Heggie Was Born
1961 Stephen Hough Was Born
1961 Joseph E. Howard Died
1961 Uuno Klami Died
1961 Edward Knight Was Born
1961 Lowell Liebermann Was Born
1961 Guy de Lioncourt Died
1961 Peter Machajdik Was Born
1961 Manuel Quiroga Died
1961 Wallingford Riegger Died
1961 James Rolfe Was Born
1961 David Sawer Was Born
1961 Mauricio Sotelo Was Born
1961 Michael Torke Was Born
1961 Roman Turovsky-Savchuk Was Born
1961 Marc-André Dalbavie Was Born
January 03 1961 U.S. Ends Diplomatic Ties With Cuba
January 03 1961 Meltdown At SL-1 Kills 3 Workers
January 03 1961 25 Killed In Finland Plane Crash
January 08 1961 French Referendum Supports DeGaulle's Algerian Policies
January 17 1961 President Eisenhower Delivers Farewell Address
January 17 1961 Patrice Lumumba Murdered For Foreign Support
January 21 1961 Miners Buried Alive When Coalbrook Mine Collapses
January 23 1961 Santa Maria Hijacked By Antonio Salazar's Opponents
January 24 1961 B-52 Accident Causes The Lose Of Uranium
January 25 1961 JFK Delivers First Live TV Presidential Conference
January 26 1961 JFK Appoints Travell His Physician
January 27 1961 Submarine S-80 Sinks
January 31 1961 Chimp Travels To Outer Space
February 03 1961 The U.S. Starts Operation Looking Glass
February 03 1961 Angolans Revolt Against Portuguese Rule
February 12 1961 Soviet Union Launches Venera 1
February 13 1961 Alleged 500,000 Year Old Rock Discovered
February 14 1961 Element 103 Is Synthesized In California
February 15 1961 Plane Crash Kills Entire American Figure Skating Team
February 16 1961 Exporer 9 Is Launched
February 16 1961 DuSable Museum Of African American History Established
February 27 1961 Spanish Trade Union Organisation Is Inaugurated
March 01 1961 U.S. President Kennedy Establishes Peace Corps
March 01 1961 First Elections Held In Uganda
March 09 1961 Sputnik 9 Successfully Launches
March 12 1961 Winter Ascent Of North Face Of Eiger
March 15 1961 South Africa Withdraws From Commonwealths
March 29 1961 Washington, D.C. Gets Presidential Voting Rights
March 30 1961 The Single Convention On Drugs Is Signed
April 03 1961 Australia: Leadbeater's Possum Rediscovered
April 08 1961 MV Dara Explosion Kills 238
April 09 1961 Pacific Electric Railway Closes In L.A
April 11 1961 Trial Of Adolf Eichmann Begins In Jerusalem
April 12 1961 Gagarin First Human To Travel To Space
April 16 1961 Castro Makes Cuba Communist
April 17 1961 CIA Backed Cuban Exiles Attack Castro
April 18 1961 Vienna Convention On Diplomatic Relations Is Adopted
April 18 1961 CONCP Fronts Pro-African Movements
April 20 1961 Bay Of Pigs Invasion Failure Cuba
April 23 1961 Algiers Putsch By French Generals
April 25 1961 Noyce Granted Patent For Integrated Circuit
April 27 1961 The First Prime Minister Of UK,grants Independence To Sierra Leone
April 30 1961 Russia's First Commissoned Nuclear Submarine Was K-19
May 01 1961 Castro Proclaims Cuba Socialist, Abolishes Elections
May 04 1961 Civil Rights 'Freedom Riders' Begin Bus Trip
May 04 1961 New Altitude Record For Balloon Flight
May 05 1961 The First American To Travel Into Outer Space
May 09 1961 Minow Gives His Wasteland Speech
May 14 1961 Freedom Riders Bus Is Bombed In Alabama
May 16 1961 Chung-hee Suprises In Korean Overthrow
May 19 1961 First Man-made Object Passes By Venus
May 19 1961 Assam: Bengalis Killed - Police Shoot: Language
May 21 1961 Martial Law Declared By Alabama Governor
May 22 1961 An Earthquake Rocks New South Wales
May 24 1961 Cyprus Joins The Council Of Europe
May 24 1961 Freedom Riders Arrested After Leaving Bus
May 25 1961 JFK Creates Apollo Program Project
May 25 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Biggest Fire In Singapore
May 28 1961 Amnesty International Created By Peter Benenson
May 30 1961 Dictator Rafael Trujillo Assassinated In Dominican Republic
May 31 1961 South African Becomes Republic Of South Africa
May 31 1961 Rokotov-Faibishenko Trial Begins In Moscow
June 04 1961 Khrushchev Sparks Berlin Crisis
June 16 1961 Rudolf Nureyev Defects From The Soviet Union
June 19 1961 Kuwait Independent From U.K
June 23 1961 Military Activity Banned In Antarctica
July 09 1961 Turkish Voters Approve Constitution
July 12 1961 Pune Floods Leave 100,000 Homeless
July 19 1961 Tunisia Blockades Bizerte French Naval Base
July 20 1961 French Military Breaks Tunisian Siege Of Bizerte
July 21 1961 Gus Grissom Is Second American In Space
July 23 1961 Nicaragua: Sandinista National Liberation Front Founded
July 25 1961 JFK Pledges Support To Berlin
July 31 1961 MLB First: Fenway Park All-Stars Rained Out
August 01 1961 McNamara Orders Creation Of Defense Intelligence Agency
August 03 1961 Canadian Party Starts By Merger
August 10 1961 Agent Orange Was Used In Vietnam
August 11 1961 Dadra And Nagar Merge To Create Territory
August 13 1961 East Germany Closes Border To Stop Escapes
August 15 1961 Schumann Flees E.Germany While Wall Built
August 21 1961 Motown Releases Marvelettes ""Please Mr. Postman""
August 22 1961 Siekmann Dies Trying To Cross Berlin Wall
August 25 1961 President Of Brazil Resigns After Seven Months
September 01 1961 Shooting Prompts Eritrean Independence War
September 05 1961 Belgrade Hosts First Non Aliged Countries Conference
September 07 1961 João Goulart Elected President Of Brazil
September 10 1961 Italian Grand Prix: Wolfgang Von Trips Dies
September 11 1961 Strong Hurricane Carla Hits Texas
September 12 1961 African And Malagasy Union Begins
September 15 1961 Hurricane Strikes Texas With Strong Winds
September 16 1961 U.S. Researchers Reduce Hurricane Wind Speed
September 16 1961 Strongest Nancy Makes Landfall In Osaka
September 17 1961 Pittsburgh PA Civic Arena 1st Retractable-dome
September 18 1961 The NAFC And CCCF Merge Into CONCACAF
September 18 1961 U.N. Leader Dies In Congo Crash
September 20 1961 General Dovas Becomes Prime Minister Of Greece
September 21 1961 Boeing CH-47 Chinook Transportation Helicopter
September 27 1961 Sierra Leone Joins The United Nations
September 28 1961 Coup Ends United Arab Republic Union Of Syria And Egypt
October 01 1961 United States Defense Intelligence Agency Origin
October 01 1961 East And West Cameron Form Singular Country
October 17 1961 Algerian Protesters Massacred By Police A The Instigation Of Maruice Papon
October 20 1961 The Sovet Union Launching An R-13
October 27 1961 NASA Tests Saturn I Rocket
October 27 1961 Two Nations Join The United Nations
October 29 1961 Syria Exits The United Arab Republic
October 30 1961 Hydrogen Bomb Tsar Bomba Detonated By Soviet Union
October 30 1961 Stalin Is Removed From Lenin's Tomb
October 31 1961 Stalin's Body Removed From Tomb Of Vladimir Lenin
November 01 1961 50,000 Women Strike Against Nuclear Proliferation
November 11 1961 Kindu Atrocity: Italians Killed In Congo
November 18 1961 JFK Sends 18,000 Military Advisors To Vietnam
November 29 1961 Mercury-Atlas Mission: Chimpanzee Launched Into Space
December 02 1961 Castro Declares Cuban Adoption Of Communism
December 09 1961 Tanganyika Becomes Independent From Britain
December 14 1961 Tanganyika Joins The United Nations
December 15 1961 Israel Sentences Eichmann To Death
December 17 1961 Fire Kills 500 At Brazil Circus
December 19 1961 India Annexes Portion Of Portuguese India
December 31 1961 Ireland's RTE Launches National Television Service




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