Page 15: Historical Events In 1961

Nov 22   Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues.   

Nov 22   Mariel Hemingway (actress Delirious, Falling from Grace, Lipstick, Personal Best, The Suicide Club, Superman 4 The Quest for Peace).   

Nov 24   Ruth Chatterton, actress (Female, Dodsworth), dies after illness at 67   

Nov 25   NBA's Bob Cousy is recorded as becoming 2nd player to score 15000 points   

Nov 26   Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer, dies at 86.   

Nov 26   For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions.   

Nov 27   Gordie Howe is recorded as becoming 1st to play in 1000 NHL games   

Nov 27   Gordie Howe is recorded as becoming inaugural to play in 1000 NHL games.   

Nov 29   Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss.   

Nov 29   Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit.   

Nov 30   Stanislaw Kazuro, composer, dies at 80.   

Nov 30   USSR vetoes Kuwait's application for UN membership   

Dec 02   Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, and will lead Cuba to Communism   

Dec 03   Anton Geesink is recorded as becoming 1st not-Japanese judo world champion   

Dec 03   Jekabs Graubins, composer, dies at 75   

Dec 04   Museum of Modern Art hung Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days   

Dec 04   Smallest New York Knick, 49th St MSG crowd-1300 (snowstorm).   

Dec 04   Tanganyika is recorded as becoming the 104th member of the UN   

Dec 06   27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB).   

Dec 08   Antwerp Belgium diocese forms.   

Dec 08   Surfin’, The Beach Boys inaugural record, was released on Candix Records. It became a local hit in Los Angeles   

Dec 08   William Beatton Moonie, composer, dies at 78.   

Dec 09   "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 perfs.   

Dec 09   SS Colonel Adolf Eichman are discovered guilty of war crimes in Israel.   

Dec 09   Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania.   

Dec 11   "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released.   

Dec 11   Adolf Eichman is are discovered guilty of war crimes, in Israel.   

Dec 11   Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 20 wks.   

Dec 11   JFK provides US military helicopters and crews to South Vietnam   

Dec 12   Daiun Sogaku Harada, Zen founder of Sanbo Kyodan lineage, dies at 91.   

Dec 12   Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36.   

Dec 12   Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Albany GA   

Dec 13   Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein   

Dec 13   Grandma [Anna M] Moses, US painter, dies at 101   

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Jan 02   Todd haynes: American film director   

Jan 03   Erwin blom: Dutch singer/guitarist (eton crop)   

Jan 04   Lee curreri: Nyc, actor (bruno martelli-fame)   

Jan 05   Curt bader: Bloomfield iowa, sprint kayak (olympics-96)   

Jan 07   Andrew thomson: Australian politician   

Jan 07   Supriya pathak: Indian actress   

Jan 07   John thune: American politician   

Jan 09   Oliver goldstick: American screenwriter   

Jan 02   Bob catterall: Cricketer (1555 runs/24 tests for s afr 1922-31),    

Jan 04   Barry fitzgerald: Actor (going my way),    

Jan 06   Regina ullmann: Writer,   

Jan 07   Clarice baright: 1st woman admitted to american bar assn,    

Jan 09   Emily greene balch: American writer, nobel peace prize laureate (b. 1867)   

Jan 10   Dashiell hammett: Us detective writer (thin man, maltese falcon),   

Jan 11   Elena gerhardt: German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)   

Jan 14   Ernest thesiger: Actor (brass monkey, ghoul),