Page 14: Historical Events In 1961

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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Jan 02   Todd Haynes, American film director was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of erwin Blom, Dutch singer/guitarist (Eton Crop)   

Jan 04   In the year 1961 birth of lee Curreri, NYC, actor (Bruno Martelli-Fame)   

Jan 05   In the year 1961 birth of curt Bader, Bloomfield Iowa, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)   

Jan 07   On this day in history birth of andrew Thomson, Australian politician   

Jan 07   Supriya Pathak, Indian actress was born on this day in history.   

Jan 07   On this day in history birth of john Thune, American politician   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter   

Jan 02   On this day in history bob Catterall, cricketer (1555 runs/24 Tests for S Afr 1922-31), dies   

Jan 04   Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Going My Way), dies at 72 in the year 1961.   

Jan 06   On this day in history regina Ullmann, writer, dies at 76   

Jan 07   In the year 1961 clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Assn, dies at 74   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)   

Jan 10   On this day in history dashiell Hammett, US detective writer (Thin Man, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66   

Jan 11   In the year 1961 death of elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)   

Jan 14   Ernest Thesiger, actor (Brass Monkey, Ghoul), dies at 81 on this day in history.