Page 16: Historical Events In 1961
Friday, 30 January 2026
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 


Dec 14 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record 


Dec 15 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel. 


Dec 15 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99 


Dec 16 "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC after 55 perfs 


Dec 16 Boris Semyonovich Shekhter, composer, dies at 61. 


Dec 17 Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil 


Dec 17 India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies 


Dec 17 Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 


Dec 18 Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles. 


Dec 18 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu 


Dec 19 British govt begins decimal coin system. 


Dec 20 Moss Heart, US dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57. 


Dec 21 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Ready Teddy" 


Dec 22 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. 


Dec 23 KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting 


Dec 24 Guy de Lioncourt, composer, dies at 76. 


Dec 24 Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game 


Dec 25 Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies. 


Dec 26 Charlie Frank, cricketer (S Af Test centurion v Aust 1921-22), dies. 


Dec 27 "Subways Are for Sleeping" opens at St James Theater NYC for 205 perfs. 


Dec 28 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89 


Dec 28 Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC 


Dec 30 Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53 


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