Historical Events in 1961 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 662

• Aug 23 US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
• Aug 24 Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms

• Aug 24 Former South African nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice
• Aug 25 Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns
• Aug 26 Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
• Aug 27 Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
• Aug 30 James Benton Parsons is confirmed as 1st African American judge of a US District Court
• Aug 30 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco

• Aug 30 USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
• Aug 31 Amsterdam National Ballet forms
• Sep 1 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
• Sep 1 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Sep 1 The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate

• Sep 4 US authorizes Agency for International Development

• Sep 5 US President JFK signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
• Sep 5 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Sep 6 USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
• Sep 9 Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962

• Sep 10 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 10 Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari

• Sep 10 American Ferrari driver Phil Hill wins Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch F1 World Drivers Championship; first American F1 world champion
• Sep 11 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
• Sep 11 Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.

• Sep 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 13 Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo
• Sep 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Sep 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 13 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit

• Sep 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 15 61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus aged 21
• Sep 16 CDU loses West German election
• Sep 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 16 WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, Kentucky (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Sep 17 "Car 54, Where are You?" premieres on US TV
• Sep 17 Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13)

• Sep 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Sep 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 19 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
• Sep 20 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls

• Sep 20 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• Sep 21 Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel both ways (44 miles)
• Sep 21 Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
• Sep 22 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hrs 10 min at 42.
• Sep 22 Jim Gentile's ties record of 5 grand slams in a year
• Sep 23 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire

• Sep 25 KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 26 "From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances
• Sep 26 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record

• Sep 27 Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN
• Sep 28 "Doctor Kildare" debuts on NBC-TV

• Sep 28 "Purlie Victorious", a farce by Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway
• Sep 28 Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
• Sep 28 USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
• Sep 28 Walt Disney's movie "Grey Friars Bobby" premieres
• Sep 29 "Detectives" TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV

• Sep 29 Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
• Sep 30 Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost
• Oct 1 The Beach Boys record their debut single "Surfin", introducing a new musical style
• Oct 1 A volcanco believed to be extinct erupts in Tristan da Cunha
• Oct 1 East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon
• Oct 1 KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Oct 1 Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's 12nd Symphony
• Oct 1 NY Yankees right-fielder Roger Maris becomes MLB’s all-time home run leader when he passes Babe Ruth's mark with No. 61 off Boston rookie Tracy Stallard in 1-0 win at Yankee Stadium
• Oct 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 1 WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Oct 1 WYAH TV channel 27 in Portsmouth, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
• Oct 2 "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV
• Oct 2 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 2 WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, D.C. (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Oct 2 WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting

• Oct 3 TV sitcom "Mr Ed" premieres on CBS
• Oct 3 "Sail Away" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 167 performances
• Oct 3 KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Oct 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• Oct 5 China & Nepal sign treaty

• Oct 6 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
• Oct 6 USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 7 "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 performances
• Oct 7 15th NHL All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: All-Stars beat Chicago Black Hawks, 3-1
• Oct 8 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
• Oct 8 American Phil Hill's Ferrari team does not participate in season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen having already clinched World Drivers Championship; English driver Innes Ireland wins Lotus' first ever Grand Prix
• Oct 9 NY Yankees beat Cincinnati Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series
• Oct 9 Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth
• Oct 9 US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police
• Oct 9 Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
• Oct 9 Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in the World Series
• Oct 9 World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
• Oct 10 "Milk & Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances
• Oct 10 Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets
• Oct 10 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
• Oct 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Oct 11 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m
• Oct 11 USSR performs nuclear test
• Oct 12 "Let It Ride" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 68 performances
• Oct 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oct 14 "How to Succeed in Business" opens at 46th St NYC for 1415 performances
• Oct 14 Ryder Cup Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes: Jerry Barber captains US to 14½-9½ win

• Oct 17 22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
• Oct 17 Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians
• Oct 17 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m

• Oct 18 Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attack

• Oct 21 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• Oct 22 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium
• Oct 23 "Kwamina" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 32 performances
• Oct 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 24 "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden Theatre, NYC for 55 performances
• Oct 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 26 First test flight of Saturn launch vehicle
• Oct 27 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
• Oct 27 American Basketball League starts play
• Oct 27 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd & 103rd members of UN
• Oct 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR
• Oct 28 "Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC starring Tom Bosley after 796 performances and a Pulitzer Prize
• Oct 28 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
• Oct 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 29 13th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Ned Jarrett wins
• Oct 30 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated

• Oct 31 Hurricane Hattie kills 400 in British Honduras
• Oct 31 Federal judge rules that laws in Birmingham, Alabama, against integrated playing fields are illegal
• Nov 2 "Kean" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances
• Nov 2 Max Frisch's "Andorra" premieres in Zurich

• Nov 4 Konstantinos Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece

• Nov 5 NFL St Louis Cardinals' Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas Cowboys
• Nov 6 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith (invented game of basketball - actually Canadian)


• Nov 7 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
• Nov 8 Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft, crashes near Richmond, Virginia, 77 die
• Nov 8 Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
• Nov 9 PGA eliminates caucasians only rule
• Nov 9 Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon" premieres in NYC
• Nov 9 The X-15 rocket plane under USAF Major Robert M White achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude
• Nov 11 Adulterous couple ride a dung cart through Staphorst, Netherlands
• Nov 11 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots

• Nov 11 Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
• Nov 11 "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller is published by Simon and Schuster in New York
• Nov 13 WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Nov 13 Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
• Nov 15 Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
• Nov 15 Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
• Nov 15 UN bans nuclear arms
• Nov 16 United Kingdom limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
• Nov 16 US President JFK decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops
• Nov 18 "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances
• Nov 18 "Kwamina" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 32 performances
• Nov 18 JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
• Nov 18 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
• Nov 19 Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13)
• Nov 20 WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting

• Nov 26 For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
• Nov 26 Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball

• Nov 27 KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Nov 28 General Meeting of UN debates New Guinea
• Nov 28 Martin Walser's "Der Abstecher" premieres in Munich
• Nov 29 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
• Nov 29 John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA
• Nov 29 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
• Nov 29 Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns and is replaced by John McCone
• Nov 30 Billy Williams of the Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year
• Nov 30 USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
• Dec 1 The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.

• Dec 2 Wind Bell, journal of San Francisco Zen Center, begins publishing
• Dec 2 26th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 34-0 in Birmingham
• Dec 2 CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: A 6th title for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers; beat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-14
• Dec 3 Dutchman Anton Geesink becomes 1st non-Japanese judo world champion

• Dec 3 George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
• Dec 3 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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