Historical Events In 1961
Apr 06 USS Lake Champlain brings oxygen to aid stricken passenger of British liner Queen of Bermuda.
Apr 28 Lt Col Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude
Apr 24 The Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
Apr 03 "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 97 performances
Apr 26 Roger Maris' first of 61 homers that year
Apr 07 Marian Jordan radio comedienne (Fibber McGee &Molly), dies at 62
Apr 05 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Jack Paar Show"
Apr 25 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
Apr 24 Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers struck out 18 batters in a game this day, becoming the first major-league pitcher to do so on two different occasions.
Nov 22 Mariel Hemingway (actress Delirious, Falling from Grace, Lipstick, Personal Best, The Suicide Club, Superman 4 The Quest for Peace)
Nov 30 USSR vetoes Kuwait's application for UN membership
Nov 06 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith
Nov 12 Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci is born
Nov 13 Wally Brown actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
Nov 29 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
Nov 27 Gordie Howe becomes first to play in 1,000 NHL games
Nov 09 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970 m
Nov 29 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
Nov 18 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
Nov 22 Mariel Hemingway (actress: Delirious, Falling from Grace, Lipstick, Personal Best, The Suicide Club, Superman 4: The Quest for Peace)
Sep 12 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
Sep 13 "Car 54 Where are You?" premiers on TV
Sep 28 USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
Sep 23 First movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire
Sep 01 USSR tests nuclear bombs in central Asia
Sep 11 Bob Dylan's first NY performance
Sep 22 Peace Corps established
Sep 27 Sierre Leone becomes the 100th member of the UN
Sep 15 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
Sep 04 US authorizes Agency for International Development
Sep 21 Antonio Abertondo swims the English Channel, both ways, in 24 hours, 25 minutes.
Sep 13 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
Sep 28 Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
Jun 24 Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
Jun 19 Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain
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