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* 1961 – U. N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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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 )
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* 1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U. S. Army.
Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange ( HO ) and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.
The other three were Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market of Mass., Inc., 366 U. S. 617 ( 1961 ); Braunfeld v. Brown, 366 U. S. 599 ( 1961 ); Two Guys from Harrison vs. McGinley, 366 U. S. 582 ( 1961 ).
*" U. S .- Canada Test Of Air Defence A Success ", The New York Times, October 16, 1961.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U. Graduate School of Library Service, 1961.
In 1961, Eisenhower became the first U. S. president to be constitutionally prevented from running for re-election to the office, having served the maximum two terms allowed.
Tolkien had authorized a paperback edition of The Hobbit in 1961, though that edition was never made available outside the U. K.
Samuel Fuller's brutal, visually energetic films such as Pickup on South Street ( 1953 ) and Underworld U. S. A. ( 1961 ) earned him a unique reputation ; his advocates praise him as " primitive " and " barbarous ".
* 1961 – U. S. S. R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
In the U. S. in September 1961, the federal government started the Community Fallout Shelter Program.
In 1961, SRI International issued a study on " The Economic Feasibility of Passenger Hydrofoil Craft in U. S. Domestic and Foreign Commerce ".
Commercial use of hydrofoils in the U. S. first appeared in 1961 when two commuter vessels were commissioned by Harry Gale Nye, Jr .' s North American Hydrofoils to service the route from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey to the financial district of Lower Manhattan.
On July 25, 1961, Kennedy insisted in a presidential address that the U. S. would defend West Berlin, asserting its Four-Power rights, while making it clear that challenging the Soviet presence in Germany was not possible.
Former U. S. Congressman W. Sterling Cole served as the IAEA's first Director General from 1957 to 1961.
* 1961 – U. S. 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 ".
* 1961 – Apollo program: U. S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a " man on the Moon " before the end of the decade.
In 1961, U Thant, then Burma's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Secretary to the Prime Minister, was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations ; he was the first non-Westerner to head any international organization and would serve as UN Secretary-General for ten years.
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