Page 14: Historical Events In 1961
Friday, 30 January 2026
Oct 17 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33100 m 


Oct 17 NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, It wasn't corrected until December 3rd. 


Oct 18 Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack 


Oct 18 Wynton Marsalis, Jazz trumpeter is born. 


Oct 19 Benjamin Merkelbach, architect/city builder of Amsterdam, dies at 60. 


Oct 21 Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones" 


Oct 21 Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish songwriter (Goggles), dies 


Oct 22 75000 Flemings demand equal rights and Flemish language in Belgium 


Oct 24 "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC for 55 perfs. 


Oct 24 Malta granted independence from Britain. 


Oct 25 Peter Jensen, co-inventer (loud speaker), dies at 75 


Oct 26 1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test. 


Oct 26 Edgar Mayne, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia around WWI), dies. 


Oct 27 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test 


Oct 27 In this year, American Basketball League starts play 


Oct 27 Outer Mongolia and Mauritania become the 102nd and 103rd members of UN 


Oct 27 The inaugural Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test 


Oct 28 "Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 796 performances 


Oct 28 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets 


Oct 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 


Oct 30 Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president Italy, dies. 


Oct 30 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square. 


Oct 30 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb 


Oct 31 Hurricane Hattie, results in the deaths of 400 in British Honduras 


Nov 01 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author, dies at 97 


Nov 02 "Kean" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances 


Nov 02 James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66 


Nov 06 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith 


Nov 06 US govt issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith. 


Nov 07 Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64. 


Nov 07 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria. 


Nov 08 Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn. 


Nov 09 PGA eliminates caucasians only rule. 


Nov 09 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30970 m 


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