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* 1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
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* 1961 – Rory Bremner, Scottish comedian
* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).
* 1961 – Enedina Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker
* 1961 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer, musician, and composer ( Dead Can Dance )
* 1961 – Charles Mann, American football player
* 1961 – Magda Szubanski, Australian actress
* 1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
* 1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player
* 1961 – Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer, and actress
* 1961 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer and director
* 1961 – Helmut Winklhofer, German footballer
* 1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor ( d. 1961 )
* 1961 – Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
* 1961 – John Key, New Zealand politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand
* 1961 – Amy Stiller, American comedian and actress
* 1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants ' attempts to escape to the West.
* 1961 – Sam Champion, American weatherman
* 1961 – Christos Christodoulou, Greek basketball player
* 1961 – Dawnn Lewis, American actress
* 1961 – Stuart Maconie, English journalist, author, and broadcaster
* 1961 – Neil Mallender, England cricketer
* 1961 – Tom Perrotta, American novelist
* 1961 – Sunil Shetty, Indian actor and producer
* 1961 – Cary Stayner, American serial killer
* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )
1961 and Hurricane
* 1961 – Kelly Hansen, American singer and musician ( Foreigner and Hurricane )
* Hurricane over Cuba / written and printed in 1961 in Brazil, along with Rubem Braga and Fernando Sabino ( 1961 )
* 1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther.
* 1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
Belmopan was constructed just to the east of the Belize River, inland from the former capital, the port of Belize City, after that city's near destruction by Hurricane Hattie in 1961.
* 1961 Category 5 Hurricane Carla makes landfall between Port Lavaca and Port O ’ Connor.
In early September 1961, Rather reported live from the Galveston Seawall as Hurricane Carla threatened the Texas coastline.
Though Hurricane Carla severely damaged the city in 1961, the city rebuilt and the fishing business revived.
The most intense hurricane to affect Victoria remains Hurricane Carla in September 1961.
Despite damage from Hurricane Carla, a bridge linking Seabrook and Kemah was completed in 1961.
The city was almost entirely destroyed in 1961 when Hurricane Hattie swept ashore on 31 October.
Hattieville was established as a refugee camp after Hurricane Hattie made many people homeless in Belize City when it hit in 1961, but it became a permanent town.
Upon his death in 1961 during Hurricane Hattie, the presidency shifted back to New York under the leadership of King, formerly president of the Central Division of the UNIA in New York.
Rubin " Hurricane " Carter ( born May 6, 1937 ) fought professionally as a middleweight boxer from 1961 to 1966.
It struck Galveston and Houston, Texas directly, causing $ 2. 6 billion ( 1983 USD ; $ USD ) in damage and killing 21 people ; this made it the worst Texas hurricane since Hurricane Carla in 1961.
Also, if Alicia had been the size of Hurricane Carla from 1961, damage could have easily doubled or possibly tripled.
September 1961 saw Hurricane Carla, a very destructive hurricane, hit the city.
Eye of Hurricane Esther ( 1961 ) | Hurricane Esther
The first seeding experiment since the Cirrus disaster was attempted on September 16, 1961, into Hurricane Esther by NHRP and the United States Navy aircraft.
The background scene comes from a photo, taken by Flip Schulke, of the Galveston Seawall in Texas during Hurricane Carla on September 11, 1961.
In 1961 Hurricane Hattie swept across the Gulf of Honduras, destroying buildings in Belize.
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