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1961 HEADLINES
Jan 03 - U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Jan 10 - Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, died.
Jan 17 - Former President Eisenhower warns against the 'military-industrial complex' in his farewell speech.
Jan 20 - Robert Frost recites “The Gift Outright” at John F. Kennedy's inauguration as president of U.S.
Jan 25 - Presidential press conference televised live for 1st time.
Jan 29 - Moscow announces putting first man in orbit around Earth, Maj. Yuri A. Gagarin.
Jan 29 - Ruanda declares independence from Belgium.
Feb 01 - First Minuteman ICBM tested in Florida.
Feb 05 - Russia launches Spunik V weighing 7.1 tons.
Feb 24 - Leakeys unearth bones of earliest human in Tanganyika.
Feb 26 - King Muhammed V died - succeeded by Crown Prince Moulay Hassan - now King Hassan II.
Mar 01 - President Kennedy announced the formation of the U.S. Peace Corps to aid developing nations.
Mar 14 - Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson.
Mar 16 - 'The Agony And The Ecstacy' by Irving Stone is published.
Mar 29 - The Twenty Third Ammendment was added to the US Constitution allowing DC residents to vote.
Apr 02 - Forty more Dead Sea scrolls written in Greek, Aramaic & older Semite language found in Palestine.
Apr 09 - Ahmed Zogon, Albania's ex-King Zog I dies.
Apr 10 - Gary Player wins Masters by a stroke.
Apr 12 - Russia wins space race, putting 27 year old Major Yugi Gargarin into earth orbit.
Apr 15 - Fellini's 'La Dolce Vita' premieres in New York.
Apr 17 - 1,400 armed exiles organized by CIA land at Bay of Pigs.
Apr 19 - Castro defeats rebels at Bay of Pigs with MIGs and tanks.
Apr 27 - NASA launches Explorer XI satellite to hunt gamma rays.
May 04 - Freedom Rides to desegregate buses begin in South.
May 05 - Kennedy signs Fair Labor Standards Act, raising minimum wage to $1.15.
May 05 - Alan Shepard Jr. - 1st U.S. man in space - takes 15 minute sub-orbital flight.
May 13 - Film star Gary Cooper dies of cancer in Los Angeles at age 60.
May 13 - U.S. agrees to increase arms to Vietnam.
May 27 - Ralph Boston sets broad jump record 27'5" in California.
May 30 - A.J. Foyt Jr. wins the 45th Indy 500 at 139.1 MPH.
Jun 04 - Khrushchev sizes up the new, young American President at the Vienna Summit.
Jun 06 - Carl C. Jung dies in Switzerland at age 85.
Jun 16 - Rudolf Nureyev broke away from his Soviet guards and ran to Paris police.
Jun 19 - Britain relinquishes control over oil rich Kuwait.
Jun 23 - X-15 jet sets speed record of over 3,000 MPH at Edwards AFB in California.
Jun 23 - At his trial in Jerusalem, Eichmann claims he spared Jews.
Jun 26 - Voting in Kuwait opposes Iraqi annexation plans.
Jul 01 - British troops land in Kuwait to aid against Iraqi threats.
Jul 02 - Author Earnest Hemingway commits suicide with shotgun at his Ketchum, Idaho home.
Jul 16 - Cyclist Jacques Anquetil wins Tour de France for the 2nd time.
Jul 17 - Ty Cobb, 1st player elected to Baseball Hall of Fame, died of prostate cancer aged 74.
Jul 17 - Rumors fly that Russia will seal the border between the two Berlins.
Jul 21 - Capt. Virgil 'Gus' Grissom becomes second American astronaut, making 118-mile-high, 303-mile-long rocket flight over Atlantic.
Jul 22 - Cassius Clay defeats Alonzo Johnson in heavyweight bout.
Aug 04 - British Parliament approves government request to join European Common Market.
Aug 06 - Gherman Stepanovich Titov is launched in Soviet spaceship Vostok II: makes 171/2 orbits in 25 hours, covering 434,960 miles before landing safely.
Aug 13 - East Germans erect Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin to halt flood of refugees.
Aug 26 - Burma becomes world's first Buddhist republic.
Sep 01 - 83 killed in Chicago plane crash.
Sep 05 - U.S. makes airline hijacking a federal offense.
Sep 05 - U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) created under Foreign Assistance Act.
Sep 15 - U.S. resumes atomic tests with an underground blast.
Sep 17 - Ex-Turkish Premier Adnam Menderes hanged.
Sep 18 - United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold dies in Rhodesian Air Crash.
Sep 22 - JFK signs congressional act establishing Peace Corps.
Sep 28 - A 20 year old, self taught, Bob Dylan had compelling stage presence in Greenwich Village.
Sep 18 - United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold dies in Rhodesian Air Crash.
Jan 20 - Robert Frost recites “The Gift Outright” at John F. Kennedy's inauguration as president of U.S.
Apr 12 - Moscow announces putting first man in orbit around Earth, Maj. Yuri A. Gagarin.
Apr 17 - Cuba invaded at Bay of Pigs by an estimated 1,200 anti-Castro exiles aided by U.S.; invasion crushed.
May 05 - First U.S. spaceman, Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., rockets 116.5 miles up in 302-mile trip.
Jul 21 - Virgil Grissom becomes second American astronaut, making 118-mile-high, 303-mile-long rocket flight over Atlantic.
Aug 06 - Gherman Stepanovich Titov is launched in Soviet spaceship Vostok II: makes 171/2 orbits in 25 hours, covering 434,960 miles before landing safely.
Aug 13 - East Germans erect Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin to halt flood of refugees.
Oct 29 - USSR fires 50-megaton hydrogen bomb, biggest explosion in history.
- There are 2,000 U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam.
- OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) formally constituted.
- 1961 Miss America: Nancy Fleming (MI)
1961 Billboard Hits
- Tossing and Turning
- Runaway
- Blue Moon
- Runaround Sue
- Quarter To Three
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow
- I Like It Like That
- Daddy's Home
- Stand By Me
- Goodbye Cruel World
1961 Sports
World Series: NY Yankees d. Cincinnati (4-1)
NBA Championship: Boston d. St. Louis Hawks (4-1)
Stanley Cup: Chicago d. Detroit (4-2)
Wimbledon:
Women: Angela Mortimer d. C. Truman (4-6 6-4 7-5)
Men: Rod Laver d. C. McKinley (6-3 6-1 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion: Carry Back
NCAA Basketball Championship: Cincinnati d. Ohio St. (70-65 OT)
NCAA Football Champions:
Alabama (AP, UPI, NFF) (11-0-0) &
Ohio St. (FW) (8-0-1)
1961 Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $544.8 billion
Federal spending: $97.72 billion
Federal debt: $292.6 billion
Consumer Price Index: 29.9
Unemployment: 5.5%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.04
1961 Nobel Peace Prize
Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden)
1961 Nobel Prize for Literature
Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia)
1961 Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry:
Melvin Calvin (US), for establishing chemical steps during photosynthesis
Physics:
Robert Hofstadter (US), for determination of shape and size of atomic nucleus; Rudolf Mössbauer (Germany), for method of producing and measuring recoil-free gamma rays
Physiology or Medicine:
Georg von Bekesy (US), for discoveries about physical mechanisms of stimulation within cochlea
1961 Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Music: Symphony No. 7, Walter Piston
Drama: All the Way Home, Tad Mosel
1961 Academy Awards
Best Motion Picture: West Side Story, Robert Wise, producer (United Artists)
Best Actor: Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg
Best Actress: Sophia Loren, Two Women
Actor in a Supporting Role: George Chakiris, West Side Story
Actress in a Supporting Role: Rita Moreno, West Side Story
Directing: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, West Side Story
Music Song: “Moon River,” Breakfast at Tiffany's, Henry Mancini, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics
1961 Emmy Awards
Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Drama- Hallmark Hall of Fame: Macbeth (NBC)
Outstanding Performance By an Actor in a Series (Lead)- Burr, Perry Mason
Outstanding Performance By an Actress in a Series (Lead)- Stanwyck, Barbara Stanwyck Show
Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role By an Actor or Actress in a Series- Don Knotts, The Andy Griffith Show
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama- George Schaefer, Hallmark Hall of Fame: Macbeth
Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama- Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone
The Program of the Year - Hallmark Hall of Fame: Macbeth (NBC)
1961 Tony Awards
Play - Becket, Jean Anouilh
Musical - Bye, Bye Birdie
Actor—Play - Zero Mostel, Rhinoceros
Actress—Play - Joan Plowright, A Taste of Honey
Supporting or Featured Actor—Play - Martin Gabel, Big Fish, Little Fish
Supporting or Featured Actress—Play - Colleen Dewhurst, All the Way Home
Actor—Musical - Richard Burton, Camelot
Actress—Musical - Elizabeth Seal, Irma la Douce
Supporting or Featured Actor—Musical - Dick Van Dyke, Bye, Bye Birdie
Supporting or Featured Actress—Musical - Tammy Grimes, The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1961 Grammy Awards
Record of the Year - “Theme From A Summer Place,” Percy Faith
Album of the Year - Button Down Mind, Bob Newhart (Warner Bros.)
Song of the Year - “Theme From Exodus,” Ernest Gold, songwriter
Best New Artist of 1960 - Bob Newhart
Best Performance By a Pop Single Artist - “Georgia on My Mind,” Ray Charles
Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Male - “Georgia on My Mind,” Ray Charles (ABC)
Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Female - “Mack the Knife,” Ella Fitzgerald (Verve)
Best Vocal Performance, Album, Male - Genius of Ray Charles, Ray Charles (Atlantic)
Best Vocal Performance, Album, Female - Mack the Knife—Ella in Berlin, Ella Fitzgerald (Verve)
1961 Books
Joseph Heller, Catch—22
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Lewis Mumford, The City in History
V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
1961 Deaths
Sir Thomas Beecham
Beecham, Sir Thomas , 1879–1961, English conductor. Beecham was educated at Oxford but did not attend any formal music school. Early in his career as a conductor and producer, he introduced his fellow countrymen to the operas of Richard Strauss, many Russian operas, and the Russian ballet. In 1932 he organized the London Philharmonic Orchestra, forging it into one of the world's finest orchestras, and in 1932 he became artistic director of Covent Garden Opera, London. A frequent conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, Manchester until 1942, he later appeared (1942–43) with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra and with the Metropolitan Opera, New York. In 1946 he organized the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London.
Ty Cobb
Cobb, Ty (Tyrus Raymond Cobb), 1886–1961, American baseball player, b. Narrows, Ga. In 1905 he joined the Detroit Tigers as center fielder and in his 24 years in the American League was one of the most spectacular and brilliant players in the history of the game. The hot-tempered Cobb, called the “Georgia Peach” by his admirers, achieved the best lifetime batting average (.367), made 4,191 major-league hits (now second in baseball history), stole 892 bases, and won 12 batting championships. He was (1921–26) manager of the Detroit team, played (1927–28) with the Philadelphia Athletics, and then retired from baseball. He was the first elected (1936) member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Carl Jung
Jung, Carl Gustav , 1875–1961, Swiss psychiatrist, founder of analytical psychology. He studied at Basel (1895–1900) and Zürich (M.D., 1902). After a stint at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Zürich, Jung worked (1902) under Eugen Bleuler at the Burgholzli Clinic. He wrote valuable papers, but more important was his book on the psychology of dementia praecox (1906), which led to a meeting (1907) with Sigmund Freud. Finding that their theoretical positions had much in common, the two formed a close relationship for a number of years: Jung edited the Jahrbuch für psychologische und psychopathologische Forschungen and was made (1911) president of the International Psychoanalytic Society. A formal break with Freud came in 1914, however, when Jung's revolutionary work on the subject of the unconscious disagreed with the Freudian emphasis on sexual trauma as the basis for all neurosis, and on the literal interpretation of the Oedipus complex.
Chico Marx
Marx, Chico
(Leonard) comedian
Birthplace: New York City
Born: 1887
Died: 1961
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