Famous Birthdays
- Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian senator
- Storm Davis, baseball player
Famous Deaths
- Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
- Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1888)
- Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies
What Happened in 1961
Soccer Star Dodges TV Trap
How did a 'This Is Your Life' surprise for footballer Danny Blanchflower backfire so badly and end with the Tottenham Hotspur star storming off the set?
February 6, 1961Final Hours of Ernest Hemingway
Why did Ernest Hemingway, with everything to live for, kill himself on this day? The one thing he did not write is a suicide note but scientists have some answers.
July 2, 1961
