Notable Historical Events - 1961
1961 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Briggs Stadium is renamed Tigers Stadium |
Jan 1 |
Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 in AFL championship game |
Jan 1 |
Largest check issued, Natl Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion) |
Jan 1 |
Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11 |
Jan 2 |
1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 |
Jan 2 |
Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14°F recorded atop Haleakale |
Jan 3 |
Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education & Labor |
Jan 3 |
US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba |
Jan 4 |
Longest recorded strike ends-33 yrs-Danish barbers' assistants |
Jan 5 |
US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba |
Jan 7 |
1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16 |
Jan 7 |
Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps |
Jan 8 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters |
Jan 9 |
Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St Paul territory |
Jan 11 |
Racial riot at University of Georgia |
Jan 12 |
"Show Girl" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 100 performances |
Jan 12 |
UN genocide pact goes into effect |
Jan 14 |
Chic Bear Willard Dewveall becomes 1st NFLer to join AFL |
Jan 15 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31 |
Jan 15 |
Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open |
Jan 15 |
Supremes signed with Motown Records |
Jan 16 |
"Conquering Hero" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Jan 16 |
Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain |
Jan 17 |
Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Lumumba |
Jan 17 |
President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex". |
Jan 18 |
Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat |
Jan 19 |
1st episode for "Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed |
Jan 20 |
Arthur M Ramsay becomes archbishop of Canterbury |
Jan 20 |
Francis Poulenc's "Gloria," premieres in Boston |
Jan 20 |
Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration |
Jan 20 |
Yugoslav ex-vice-president Milovan Djilas flees |
Jan 21 |
"Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 8 performances |
Jan 21 |
KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls, ID (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jan 21 |
Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria |
Jan 23 |
Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films |
Jan 23 |
Venezuela adopts constitution |
Jan 24 |
Edward Albee's "American Dream," premieres in NYC |
Jan 24 |
Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68 |
Jan 25 |
1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK) |
Jan 25 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
Jan 25 |
Military coup in El Salvador |
Jan 25 |
Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released |
Jan 26 |
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to #1 |
Jan 26 |
1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell |
Jan 27 |
"Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV |
Jan 28 |
Republic of Rwanda proclaimed |
Jan 29 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen |
Jan 29 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord |
Jan 30 |
Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC |
Jan 30 |
JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps |
Jan 30 |
KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 30 |
Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide |
Jan 31 |
David Ben-Gurion resigns as Prime Minister of Israel |
Jan 31 |
Ham the chimpanzee is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2 |
Jan 31 |
Houston voters approve bond to finance luxury domed stadium |
Jan 31 |
Kanhai completes twin tons (117 & 115) v Aust at Adelaide |
Jan 31 |
NATO secretary-general Paul-Henri Spaak says he'll resign |
Jan 31 |
USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights |
Feb 1 |
1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful |
Feb 1 |
British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive |
Feb 1 |
Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 mins for cricket draw vs West Indies |
Feb 2 |
Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam |
Feb 3 |
6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm)) |
Feb 4 |
Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure |
Feb 6 |
"Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC |
Feb 6 |
KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 7 |
Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads" |
Feb 9 |
Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo |
Feb 10 |
AFL's LA Chargers move to San Diego |
Feb 10 |
Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power |
Feb 10 |
Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres |
Feb 11 |
Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black |
Feb 12 |
Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125 |
Feb 12 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
Feb 12 |
Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 yrs 82 days |
Feb 12 |
USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus |
Feb 13 |
Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records |
Feb 13 |
Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus |
Feb 14 |
Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley Calif |
Feb 14 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational |
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 16 |
1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va |
Feb 16 |
China uses its 1st nuclear reactor |
Feb 16 |
US satellite Explorer 9 is launched |
Feb 18 |
Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater |
Feb 19 |
Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism" |
Feb 19 |
Henk van der Grift (Neth) becomes world champ all-round skater |
Feb 21 |
Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Die Physiker," premieres in Zurich |
Feb 21 |
Gabon adopts constitution |
Feb 21 |
Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km |
Feb 24 |
Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit |
Feb 25 |
Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak |
Feb 25 |
Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10 |
Feb 27 |
The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated. |
Feb 28 |
JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor |
Mar 1 |
Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall |
Mar 1 |
President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp |
Mar 2 |
"13 Daughters" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 28 performances |
Mar 3 |
King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco |
Mar 4 |
Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO |
Mar 6 |
1st London minicabs introduced |
Mar 6 |
Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12½ year jubilee |
Mar 6 |
Dutch guilder revalued 4.74% |
Mar 8 |
Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary" premieres in NYC |
Mar 8 |
US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from SC in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs |
Mar 9 |
1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9 |
Mar 9 |
Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72 |
Mar 9 |
Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit |
Mar 9 |
Supremes release "I Want A Guy" & "Never Again" |
Mar 11 |
Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each) |
Mar 12 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open |
Mar 13 |
Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party |
Mar 13 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 13 |
JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress |
Mar 13 |
Landslide in USSR, kills 145 |
Mar 13 |
Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender |
Mar 14 |
George Weiss becomes pres of NY Mets |
Mar 15 |
South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth |
Mar 17 |
NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players |
Mar 17 |
South Africa leaves British Commonwealth |
Mar 18 |
Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced |
Mar 21 |
Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record ($3,925,000) |
Mar 21 |
Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club |
Mar 24 |
NY Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows |
Mar 25 |
"13 Daughters" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 28 performances |
Mar 25 |
"Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances |
Mar 25 |
23rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 70-65 (OT) |
Mar 25 |
Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona |
Mar 25 |
Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km) |
Mar 25 |
Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered |
Mar 25 |
3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes |
Mar 26 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival |
Mar 27 |
Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars |
Mar 27 |
Belgium government of Eyskens resigns |
Mar 27 |
Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen |
Mar 29 |
23rd Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, allowing Washington DC residents to vote in presidential elections |
Mar 29 |
After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge |
Mar 29 |
KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 30 |
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m) |
Mar 30 |
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York. |
Mar 31 |
Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia |
Apr 3 |
"Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 97 perfs |
Apr 3 |
Connie Mack Stadium in Phila is sold to J Schleifer Properties |
Apr 5 |
Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show" |
Apr 5 |
Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council |
Apr 8 |
"Show Girl" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 100 perfs |
Apr 8 |
British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236 |
Apr 10 |
25th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 280 |
Apr 10 |
Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel |
Apr 10 |
Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea |
Apr 10 |
New Wash Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to White Sox |
Apr 11 |
Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem |
Apr 11 |
Bob Dylan makes his 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village |
Apr 11 |
15th NBA Championship: Bos Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1 |
Apr 11 |
Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Israel |
Apr 11 |
Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns |
Apr 11 |
Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II crimes trial |
Apr 12 |
3rd Grammy Awards: Theme From a Summer Place, Ray Charles wins 4 |
Apr 12 |
Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner |
Apr 12 |
Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1) |
Apr 13 |
"Carnival!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 719 performances |
Apr 13 |
UN General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid |
Apr 14 |
1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union |
Apr 14 |
Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua |
Apr 14 |
US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered |
Apr 15 |
"Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances |
Apr 16 |
15th Tony Awards: Becket & Bye Bye Birdie win |
Apr 16 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
Apr 16 |
Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2 |
Apr 17 |
1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Castro |
Apr 17 |
33rd Academy Awards - "Apartment" wins best film, Burt Lancaster & Elizabeth Taylor win best actor/actress |
Apr 17 |
Jimmy Stewart accepts an honorary Oscar on behalf of his friend Gary Cooper, who is too ill to attend |
Apr 18 |
CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule. |
Apr 19 |
65th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:39 |
Apr 20 |
American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight |
Apr 21 |
Dirk Stikker chosen as secretary general of NATO |
Apr 21 |
French army revolts in Algeria |
Apr 21 |
USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m |
Apr 22 |
Uprising of French parachutist of Gen Salan/Challe in Algeria |
Apr 23 |
"Tenderloin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 216 performances |
Apr 23 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
Apr 23 |
Algiers putsch by French generals. |
Apr 24 |
JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs |
Apr 24 |
Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised |
Apr 24 |
The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged. |
Apr 25 |
"Young Abe Lincoln" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 27 perfs |
Apr 25 |
France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria |
Apr 25 |
Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin |
Apr 25 |
Premier Moise Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo |
Apr 25 |
Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit |
Apr 25 |
Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad |
Apr 26 |
French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria |
Apr 26 |
Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961 |
Apr 27 |
NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays |
Apr 27 |
NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio |
Apr 27 |
Sierra Leone declares independence from UK |
Apr 28 |
Lt Col Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude |
Apr 28 |
Warren Spahn pitches 2nd no hitter at 41 beats SF Giants, 1-0 |
Apr 29 |
ABC's "Wide World of Sports" debuts |
Apr 30 |
1st shuttle flights between Washington DC, Boston & NYC begin (Eastern) |
Apr 30 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Apr 30 |
Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize |
Apr 30 |
SF Giant Willie Mays hits 4 HRs in a game |
May 1 |
1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba |
May 1 |
Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba |
May 1 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) |
May 1 |
Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain |
May 3 |
Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter |
May 4 |
1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given. |
May 4 |
CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC |
May 4 |
Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon |
May 4 |
South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested |
May 5 |
Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7) |
May 6 |
87th Kentucky Derby: John Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 2:04 |
May 6 |
Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party |
May 7 |
"Young Abe Lincoln" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 27 perfs |
May 7 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
May 8 |
1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport, Texas |
May 8 |
Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington |
May 9 |
Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minnesota Twins |
May 9 |
FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland" |
May 9 |
Jim Gentile is 4th to hit grand slams in consecutive innings |
May 10 |
"Beyond the Fringe" premieres in London |
May 12 |
Mikhail Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time |
May 14 |
Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama |
May 14 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open |
May 14 |
Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix |
May 15 |
"Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19 |
May 15 |
36 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
May 15 |
Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra |
May 16 |
13th Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck win |
May 17 |
Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers |
May 18 |
"Donnybrook!" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 68 performances |
May 19 |
New pier opens in Scheveningen |
May 20 |
87th Preakness: Johnny Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 1:57.6 |
May 20 |
Henzes opera "Elegy for Young Lovers," premieres in Schwetzingen |
May 20 |
Mauritania adopts constitution |
May 20 |
White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama |
May 21 |
Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery |
May 22 |
"Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1 |
May 22 |
"Touchables In Brooklyn" by Dickie Goodman hits #42 |
May 22 |
1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Needle in Seattle) opens |
May 24 |
27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi |
May 24 |
Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit |
May 24 |
Cyprus joins the Council of Europe. |
May 25 |
JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade |
May 25 |
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m |
May 25 |
President Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon |
May 26 |
Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta |
May 26 |
USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours |
May 27 |
1st black light is sold |
May 27 |
Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence |
May 27 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' ½" |
May 28 |
Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977) |
May 28 |
Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years) |
May 28 |
Record 27 HRs hit in 7 AL games |
May 30 |
Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die |
May 30 |
Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs |
May 30 |
Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: A.J. Foyt wins in 3:35:37.540 (223.908 km/h) |
May 31 |
Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern |
May 31 |
Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens |
May 31 |
JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris |
May 31 |
Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate |
May 31 |
Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth |
Jun 1 |
FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard |
Jun 3 |
"Wildcat" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 172 performances |
Jun 3 |
93rd Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Sherluck wins in 2:29.2 |
Jun 3 |
JFK & Khrushchev meet in Vienna |
Jun 4 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
Jun 8 |
Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, v England at Edgbaston, 57 |
Jun 8 |
Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock & Frank Thomas) |
Jun 9 |
Ryne Duren sets AL record with 7 straight strikeouts against Red Sox |
Jun 11 |
"Winston Churchill" last airs on ABC-TV |
Jun 11 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
Jun 11 |
Norm Cash becomes 1st Det Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium |
Jun 11 |
Roger Maris hits 19th & 20th of 61 HRs |
Jun 12 |
An ailing Bill Veeck sells his interest in White Sox to Arthur Allyn |
Jun 12 |
Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20 |
Jun 13 |
"Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Jun 14 |
106°F, hottest temperature in SF |
Jun 15 |
Expansion Wash Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games |
Jun 16 |
Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host |
Jun 16 |
Discoverer 25 launched |
Jun 16 |
Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris |
Jun 17 |
"Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 8 perfs |
Jun 17 |
61st US Golf Open: Gene Littler shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich |
Jun 17 |
Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt |
Jun 18 |
CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke |
Jun 18 |
KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jun 18 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
Jun 19 |
"Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by Coasters peaks at #23 |
Jun 19 |
Charlie Finley, changes A's manager Joe Gordon (26-33) for Hank Bauer |
Jun 19 |
Kuwait declares independence from UK |
Jun 19 |
NY Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 HRs |
Jun 19 |
US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God |
Jun 22 |
Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo |
Jun 22 |
Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child & My Bonnie, in Hamburg |
Jun 23 |
The Antarctic Treaty, ensuring that Antarctica is used for peaceful purposes; for international cooperation in scientific research; and does not become the scene or object of international discord, comes into force |
Jun 23 |
Cubs Ernie Banks ends his 717 consecutive-games-played streak |
Jun 23 |
Phillies overcome 9-0, losing 11-2 they score 4 in 8th & 6 in 9th |
Jun 23 |
USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 32,830 m |
Jun 24 |
"Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 97 perfs |
Jun 24 |
Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby" |
Jun 24 |
Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait |
Jun 25 |
Balt & California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns |
Jun 25 |
Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees) |
Jun 27 |
Ghana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa |
Jun 28 |
Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie |
Jun 29 |
Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3) |
Jun 29 |
Willie Mays is 4th major leaguer with 3 or more HRs twice in a season |
Jun 29 |
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) calls for South Africa's withdrawal at the Geneva Conference in protest of the racial policies of the South African government |
Jun 30 |
Buddy Rogers beats Pat O'Conner in Chicago, to become NWA champ |
Jun 30 |
Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit |
Jul 1 |
16th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
Jul 1 |
Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii |
Jul 1 |
KNDU TV channel 25 in Richland-Pasco-Kennew, WA (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Jul 2 |
Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers |
Jul 4 |
Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skørping in Denmark |
Jul 5 |
80 die in collisions in Algiers |
Jul 5 |
KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jul 5 |
St Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 HRs & a double |
Jul 6 |
Portuguese ship explodes near Mozambique, kills 300 |
Jul 7 |
75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64) |
Jul 7 |
James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters |
Jul 8 |
Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies |
Jul 8 |
Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die |
Jul 11 |
30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF |
Jul 11 |
Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
Jul 14 |
Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500 |
Jul 14 |
Finland's Miettunen government forms |
Jul 14 |
Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate |
Jul 15 |
"Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 68 performances |
Jul 15 |
90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale |
Jul 15 |
Spain accepts equal rights for men & women |
Jul 16 |
Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open |
Jul 16 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2" |
Jul 17 |
John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show |
Jul 17 |
Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th |
Jul 18 |
Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games |
Jul 19 |
1st in-flight movie shown (TWA) |
Jul 20 |
French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte. |
Jul 21 |
Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom |
Jul 22 |
WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jul 23 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
Jul 23 |
Bricusse & Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ..." premieres |
Jul 24 |
Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba |
Jul 24 |
Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show |
Jul 24 |
Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader |
Jul 25 |
Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader |
Jul 25 |
In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. |
Jul 29 |
Bob Dylan injured in car accident |
Jul 29 |
Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games |
Jul 29 |
Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory |
Jul 30 |
43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL |
Jul 30 |
Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
Jul 31 |
31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston |
Jul 31 |
Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant |
Aug 1 |
Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford |
Aug 1 |
German DR limits traffic to West Berlin |
Aug 1 |
New SF Hall of Justice opens |
Aug 1 |
Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League |
Aug 2 |
Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club |
Aug 2 |
Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo |
Aug 2 |
St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto |
Aug 4 |
108°F, Spokane, WA |
Aug 4 |
28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000) |
Aug 5 |
118°F (48°C), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record) |
Aug 5 |
Chic Bears (NFL) beat Mont Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in Montreal |
Aug 6 |
Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits) |
Aug 6 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
Aug 6 |
1st case of motion sickness in space reported |
Aug 7 |
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2 |
Aug 7 |
Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US |
Aug 8 |
Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario |
Aug 8 |
Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
Aug 9 |
James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court |
Aug 10 |
UK applies for membership of the European Common Market |
Aug 11 |
Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1 |
Aug 13 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany |
Aug 13 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open |
Aug 14 |
Philadelphia Phillies lose 17th straight game |
Aug 15 |
Keiyo Road is specified as the first driveway in Japan. |
Aug 16 |
250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin |
Aug 16 |
Martin L King protests for black voting right in Miami |
Aug 17 |
Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress |
Aug 19 |
US vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin |
Aug 20 |
Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves |
Aug 20 |
East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13 |
Aug 21 |
Kenyan political activist Jomo Kenyatta released from jail after 9 years. Imprisoned during 1952 Mau Mau rebellion with other nationalist leaders by British authorities |
Aug 22 |
Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers |
Aug 23 |
Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi |
Aug 23 |
East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West & East Berlin |
Aug 23 |
US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back |
Aug 24 |
Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms |
Aug 24 |
Former South African nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice |
Aug 25 |
Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns |
Aug 26 |
Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto |
Aug 27 |
Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line" |
Aug 27 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open |
Aug 30 |
1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons |
Aug 30 |
J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court |
Aug 30 |
Last Spanish troops leave Morocco |
Aug 30 |
Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game |
Aug 30 |
USSR says it will resume nuclear testing |
Aug 31 |
Amsterdam National Ballet forms |
Sep 1 |
1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade |
Sep 1 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 1 |
The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate |
Sep 4 |
Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio |
Sep 4 |
US authorizes Agency for International Development |
Sep 5 |
JFK begins underground nuclear testing |
Sep 5 |
President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty) |
Sep 5 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 6 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR |
Sep 9 |
Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962 |
Sep 10 |
75th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64) |
Sep 10 |
81st US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62) |
Sep 10 |
Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400 |
Sep 10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 10 |
Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari. |
Sep 11 |
Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund. |
Sep 12 |
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m |
Sep 12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 13 |
"Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV |
Sep 13 |
Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo |
Sep 13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 13 |
Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit |
Sep 14 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of USSR |
Sep 14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 15 |
61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus |
Sep 15 |
Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph |
Sep 16 |
CDU loses West German election |
Sep 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 16 |
WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 17 |
Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13) |
Sep 17 |
Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," premieres in NYC |
Sep 17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 17 |
Fran Tarkenton plays his first NFL Game against the Chicago Bears, coming off the bench to lead the Vikings to a 37-13 victory, also becoming the only QB to throw four touchdown passes in his first career game |
Sep 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 19 |
Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them. |
Sep 20 |
After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls |
Sep 20 |
James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi |
Sep 20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 20 |
Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26 |
Sep 21 |
Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel round trip (44 miles) |
Sep 21 |
Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter. |
Sep 22 |
Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hrs 10 min |
Sep 22 |
Jim Gentile's ties record of 5 grand slams in a year |
Sep 23 |
1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire |
Sep 23 |
Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak |
Sep 24 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open |
Sep 25 |
KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 26 |
"From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances |
Sep 26 |
Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record |
Sep 27 |
Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269 |
Sep 27 |
Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN |
Sep 28 |
"Doctor Kildare" debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 28 |
"Hazel" starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 28 |
"Purlie Victorious", a farce by Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway |
Sep 28 |
Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic |
Sep 28 |
USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m |
Sep 28 |
Walt Disney's movie "Grey Friars Bobby" premieres |
Sep 29 |
"Detectives" TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
Bob Dylan's 1st recording session-backup harmonica for Caroline Hester |
Sep 29 |
Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria |
Sep 30 |
Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost |
Oct 1 |
A volcanco believed to be extinct erupts in Tristan da Cunha |
Oct 1 |
East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon |
Oct 1 |
KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 1 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Open |
Oct 1 |
Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovitsch's 12nd Symphony |
Oct 1 |
Roger Maris sets record of 61 HRs (off of Tracy Stallard) |
Oct 1 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 1 |
WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 1 |
WYAH TV channel 27 in Portsmouth, VA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Oct 2 |
"Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV |
Oct 2 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 2 |
WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, DC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 2 |
WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 3 |
"Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV |
Oct 3 |
"Mr Ed" premieres |
Oct 3 |
"Sail Away" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 167 performances |
Oct 3 |
KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 4 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 4 |
Whitey Ford's 3rd straight World Series shutout |
Oct 5 |
China & Nepal sign treaty |
Oct 6 |
JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters |
Oct 6 |
USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 7 |
"Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 perfs |
Oct 7 |
15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago |
Oct 8 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin's Swing Parade Golf Tournament |
Oct 8 |
US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die |
Oct 8 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR |
Oct 9 |
NY Yankees beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series |
Oct 9 |
Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth |
Oct 9 |
US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police |
Oct 9 |
Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic) |
Oct 9 |
Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning |
Oct 9 |
World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1 |
Oct 10 |
"Milk & Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances |
Oct 10 |
Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets |
Oct 10 |
Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court |
Oct 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 11 |
USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m |
Oct 11 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Oct 12 |
"Let It Ride" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 68 performances |
Oct 12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 14 |
"How to Succeed in Business" opens at 46th St NYC for 1415 perfs |
Oct 14 |
14th Ryder Cup: US wins, 14½-9½ at Royal Lytham & St Annes, England |
Oct 17 |
22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow |
Oct 17 |
Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians |
Oct 17 |
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m |
Oct 17 |
NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd |
Oct 18 |
Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attack |
Oct 18 |
"West Side Story", the film adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical, starring Natalie Wood, is released |
Oct 21 |
Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones" |
Oct 21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
Oct 22 |
75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium |
Oct 22 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Golf Civitan |
Oct 23 |
"Kwamina" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 32 performances |
Oct 23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 24 |
"Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC for 55 perfs |
Oct 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 26 |
First test flight of Saturn launch vehicle |
Oct 27 |
1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test |
Oct 27 |
American Basketball League starts play |
Oct 27 |
Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd & 103rd members of UN |
Oct 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR |
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 |
Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba - most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated |
Oct 30 |
UN unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash |
Oct 30 |
Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square |
Oct 31 |
Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras |
Oct 31 |
Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal |
Nov 2 |
"Kean" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances |
Nov 2 |
Max Frisch's "Andorra" premieres in Zurich |
Nov 3 |
General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general |
Nov 4 |
Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece |
Nov 5 |
India's premier Nehru arrives in NY |
Nov 5 |
St Louis Cards Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas |
Nov 6 |
US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith |
Nov 7 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
Nov 8 |
Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn |
Nov 9 |
PGA eliminates caucasians only rule |
Nov 9 |
Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon," premieres in NYC |
Nov 9 |
USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m |
Nov 9 |
The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude |
Nov 11 |
Adulterous couple up mestkar through Staphorst riding |
Nov 11 |
Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots |
Nov 11 |
Molotov, Malenkov & Kaganovitsj expelled from USSR's communist party |
Nov 11 |
Stalingrad renamed Volgograd |
Nov 13 |
WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 13 |
Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB. |
Nov 15 |
Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth |
Nov 15 |
Roger Maris is voted AL MVP |
Nov 15 |
UN bans nuclear arms |
Nov 16 |
Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries |
Nov 16 |
US President Kennedy decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops |
Nov 18 |
"Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances |
Nov 18 |
"Kwamina" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 32 performances |
Nov 18 |
JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam |
Nov 18 |
US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed |
Nov 19 |
Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13) |
Nov 20 |
WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 22 |
Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues |
Nov 22 |
St Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws |
Nov 22 |
Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star |
Nov 25 |
NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points |
Nov 26 |
For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions |
Nov 26 |
Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball |
Nov 27 |
Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games |
Nov 27 |
KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 28 |
Ernest Davis is 1st black to win Heisman Trophy |
Nov 28 |
General Meeting of UN debates New-Guinea |
Nov 28 |
Martin Walser's "Der Abstecher" premieres in Munich |
Nov 29 |
Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss |
Nov 29 |
John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA |
Nov 29 |
Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit |
Nov 30 |
Billy Williams of the Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year |
Nov 30 |
USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership |
Dec 1 |
The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea. |
Dec 2 |
Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism |
Dec 2 |
Wind Bell, journal of SF Zen Center, begins publishing |
Dec 3 |
Anton Geesink becomes 1st non-Japanese judo world champion |
Dec 3 |
Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein |
Dec 3 |
George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal |
Dec 3 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Dec 4 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
Dec 4 |
Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days |
Dec 4 |
Smallest NY Knick, 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-1,300 (snowstorm) |
Dec 4 |
Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN |
Dec 4 |
WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 4 |
The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain |
Dec 6 |
27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB) |
Dec 8 |
Antwerp Belgium diocese forms |
Dec 8 |
Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec) |
Dec 8 |
South Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock |
Dec 8 |
Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78 |
Dec 9 |
"From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 perfs |
Dec 9 |
"Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 68 perfs |
Dec 9 |
SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel |
Dec 9 |
Tanganyika gains independence from Britain, takes name Tanzania |
Dec 9 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY |
Dec 10 |
Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans |
Dec 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground) |
Dec 10 |
USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations |
Dec 10 |
Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleon |
Dec 11 |
"Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released |
Dec 11 |
Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel |
Dec 11 |
Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks |
Dec 11 |
JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam |
Dec 12 |
Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36 |
Dec 12 |
Martin Luther King Jr. & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga |
Dec 13 |
Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein |
Dec 13 |
Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann |
Dec 13 |
Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller |
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 |
Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time |
Dec 15 |
JFK visits Puerto Rico |
Dec 15 |
L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels |
Dec 16 |
"Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC after 55 perfs |
Dec 17 |
Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil |
Dec 17 |
India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies |
Dec 17 |
Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die |
Dec 18 |
Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles |
Dec 18 |
For 2nd consecutive year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year |
Dec 18 |
India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu |
Dec 18 |
KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Dec 18 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 78 points vs LA |
Dec 19 |
Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization |
Dec 21 |
Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy" |
Dec 21 |
JFK & British PM MacMillan meet in Bermuda |
Dec 21 |
Gangster Joe Gallo is sentenced to 7 to 14 years in state prison for extortion |
Dec 22 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Dec 23 |
KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Dec 23 |
Train accident in Italy, 70 die |
Dec 23 |
Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies |
Dec 24 |
Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game |
Dec 27 |
Belgium & Congo resume diplomatic relations |
Dec 27 |
Styne/Comden/Green's musical "Subways are for Sleeping" premieres at St James Theater NYC for 205 perfs |
Dec 28 |
Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC |
Dec 28 |
50th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Melbourne (5-0) |
Dec 30 |
Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936) |
Dec 31 |
"lrma La Douce" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 527 performances |
Dec 31 |
Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name |
Dec 31 |
Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon |
Dec 31 |
Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game |
Dec 31 |
Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion |
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