Page 3: Historical Events In 1961

Feb 01   British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive.   

Feb 01   Mackay and Kline hang on for 100 minutes for cricket draw vs West Indies   

Feb 02   Adolf Vogl, composer, dies at 87   

Feb 02   Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam   

Feb 03   6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm)).   

Feb 03   Anna May Wong, actress (Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), dies at 54.   

Feb 04   Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure   

Feb 05   Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73.   

Feb 06   Archibald T Davison, composer, dies at 77   

Feb 06   In this year, "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC.   

Feb 07   Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads".   

Feb 08   William Duncan, actor (Hopalong Rides Again), dies at 81.   

Feb 09   Grigory Levenfish, Intl chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70   

Feb 09   Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo   

Feb 10   Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power   

Feb 11   Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director (Pygmalion), dies at 82.   

Feb 11   Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black   

Feb 11   Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem   

Feb 12   inaugural spacecraft to the planet Venus launched.   

Feb 12   USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus.   

Feb 13   Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Brothers Records   

Feb 13   Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus   

Feb 14   Element 103, Lawrencium, inaugural produced in Berkeley CA   

Feb 14   Wallis Clark, actress (Easy Money), dies at 78.   

Feb 15   Australia beat West Indies 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever   

Feb 15   Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash   

Feb 15   Jack Whiting, actor (Top Speed, Life of the Party), dies at 59.   

Feb 16   China uses it's inaugural nuclear reactor   

Feb 16   inaugural all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island VA   

Feb 16   US satellite Explorer 9 is launched.   

Feb 17   Nita Naldi, actress (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), dies of heart attack at 63   

Feb 18   Henk van der Grift is recorded as becoming world champion skater   

Feb 19   Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism".   

Feb 20   Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor (Negro Worker), dies at 67.   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of todd Haynes, American film director   

Jan 03   In the year 1961 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   Curt Bader, Bloomfield Iowa, sprint kayak (Olympics-96) was born on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1961 birth of john Thune, American politician   

Jan 09   Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter was born in the year 1961.   

Jan 02   In the year 1961 bob Catterall, cricketer (1555 runs/24 Tests for S Afr 1922-31), dies   

Jan 04   In the year 1961 barry Fitzgerald, actor (Going My Way), dies at 72   

Jan 06   In the year 1961 regina Ullmann, writer, dies at 76   

Jan 07   On this day in history clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Assn, dies at 74   

Jan 09   Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867) died in the year 1961.   

Jan 10   Dashiell Hammett, US detective writer (Thin Man, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66 in the year 1961.   

Jan 11   Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883) died on this day in history.   

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