* 1961 – Charles Mann, American football player

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy of the United States paid their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by French President Charles de Gaulle.

After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961 ; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician.

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment Étranger Parachutiste, 1 < sup > e </ sup > REP ) was established in 1955 during the Algerian War and disbanded in April 1961 as the entire regiment rose against the French government of Charles de Gaulle ( Algiers Putsch ), in protest against moves to negotiate an end to the Algerian War and providing Algeria's independence from France.

* 1961 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.

* Charles Harrison Mason ( 1866 – 1961 ) The Founder of the Church of God In Christ

Article 16, allowing the president a limited form of rule by decree for a limited period of time in exceptional circumstance, has been used only once, by Charles de Gaulle during the Algerian War, from 23 April to 29 September 1961.

Charles Deutsch, wanting to stick to Panhard engines, left DB in 1961 to found his own firm ( CD ).

An entry attempt had been issued in July 1961 by the Macmillan government, and negotiated by Edward Heath as Lord Privy Seal, but was vetoed in 1963 by French President Charles de Gaulle.

In 1961, he starred in the drama Fanny with Leslie Caron and Charles Boyer, an updated version of Marcel Pagnol's " Marseilles Trilogy.

Charles Lacheroy, Colonel Trinquier, who theorized the systemic use of torture in counter-insurgency doctrine in Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency ( 1961 ), were members of it.

On July 12, 1961, president Charles de Gaulle bestowed on him the French Legion of Honour for service to the state.

There was previously a far more extensive local railway network in Clare, laid while part of the United Kingdom, the West Clare Railway was in existence from its opening in 1887 by Charles Stewart Parnell until 1961 covering much of the county.

* Charles Marion Russell ( 1961 ), " The Trail Boss "

In some of his other roles during the 1960s and 1970s, Bogarde played opposite renowned stars, yet several of the films were of uneven quality, down to demands or limitations set by the studio or their scripts: The Angel Wore Red ( 1960 ), playing an unfrocked priest who falls in love with cabaret entertainer Ava Gardner during the Spanish Civil War ; Song Without End ( 1960 ), as Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt, a flawed film made under the initial direction of Charles Vidor ( who died during shooting ), and completed by Bogarde's friend George Cukor, the actor's only disappointing foray into Hollywood ; the campy The Singer Not the Song ( 1961 ), as a Mexican bandit co-starring John Mills as a priest ; H. M. S.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

* 1961 Charles Brown Sings Christmas Songs ( King )

originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963, which was itself inspired by " The Donkeys ," Alan Clark's 1961 attack on Great War generalship.

Eyewitness to History was a CBS Friday night public affairs program which was initially hosted by veteran broadcaster Charles Kuralt ( 1960 -' 61 ), followed by Walter Cronkite ( 1961 -' 62 ), and Charles Collingwood ( 1962 -' 63 ).

Article 16 rule has only been exercised once, in 1961, during a crisis related to the Algerian War in which Charles de Gaulle needed those emergency powers to foil a military plot to take over the government.

Swanberg, from Citizen Hearst: A biography of William Randolph Hearst: ( Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961 )

Charles G. Koch joined Rock Island in 1961, having started his career at the management consulting firm Arthur D. Little.

* 1892 – Sumner Welles, American diplomat ( d. 1961 )

* Sumner Welles, ( 1892 – 1961 ), U. S. Undersecretary of State

Benjamin Sumner Welles ( October 14, 1892-September 24, 1961 ) was an American government official and diplomat in the Foreign Service.

* Sumner Welles ( 1892 – 1961 ), American diplomat, Under Secretary of State from 1937 to 1943

In 1961, the Callahan Tunnel opened, paralleling the older Sumner Tunnel.

His notable films include High Noon ( 1952, as producer ), The Defiant Ones ( 1958 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), Inherit the Wind ( 1960 ), Judgment at Nuremberg ( 1961 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), Ship of Fools ( 1965 ) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ( 1967 ).

Among some of those controversial films were Not as a Stranger ( 1955 ), The Pride and the Passion ( 1957 ), The Defiant Ones ( 1958 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), Inherit the Wind ( 1960 ), Judgment at Nuremberg ( 1961 ) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ( 1967 ).

In the first volume, The Coming Fury ( 1961 ), Catton explored the causes and events leading to the start of the war, culminating in its first major combat, the First Battle of Bull Run.

His other film credits include The Jackie Robinson Story ( 1950 ), Carmen Jones ( 1954 ), Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), A Raisin in the Sun ( 1961 ), with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Claudia McNeil, and a memorable turn as Mr. Prentice ( again playing opposite Poitier ) in the 1967 feature film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Very Important Person ( retitled A Coming Out Party in the United States ) is a 1961 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin and written by Jack Davies and Henry Blyth.

According to Barr ( 1961 ) this cave was mined during the Civil War.

In 1961, the U. S. Justice Department filed suit against Lynd and he became the first southern registrar to be convicted under the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for systematically violating African American voting rights.

The origin of the word " farb " ( and the derivative adjective " farby ") is unknown, though it appears to date to early American Civil War centennial reenactments in 1960 or 1961.

In East Germany, the Hauptverwaltung der Zivilen Luftfahrt ( Central Administration for Civil Aviation ) was established on 1 Jan 1961.

* Jeremy Heywood ( born 1961 ), British Civil Servant

Harmel was Minister of Justice in the second government led by Gaston Eyskens ( 23 June 1958-6 November 1958 ), and then Minister of Culture ( 6 November 1958-3 September 1960 ) and Minister of the Civil Service ( 3 September 1960-25 April 1961 ) in the third Eyskens cabinet.

According to the British historian Hugh Thomas in his magnum opus The Spanish Civil War ( 1961 ), the evening began with an impassioned speech by the Falangist writer José María Pemán.

* The League for Civil Education ( 1960 or 1961 –?

( 1946 ); “ Essentials for Nigeria ’ s Survival .” ( 1965 ); “ Before Us Lies The Open Grave ” ( 1947 ); “ The Future of Pan-Africanism ” ( 1961 ); “ The Realities of African Unity ” ( 1965 ); “ Origins of the Nigerian Civil War ” ( 1969 ); I Believe in a One Nigeria ( 1969 ); Peace Proposals for Ending the Nigerian Civil War ( 1969 ); Dialogue on a New Capital for Nigeria ( 1974 ); “ Creation of More States in Nigeria, A Political Analysis ” ( 1974 ); Democracy with Military Vigilance ( 1974 ); “ Reorientation of Nigerian Ideologies: lecture on 9 December 1976, on eve of the launching of the UNN Endowment Fund ” ( 1976 ); Our Struggle for Freedom ; Onitsha Market Crisis ( 1976 ); Let Us Forgive Our Children, An appeal to the leaders and people of Onitsha during the market crisis ( 1976 ); A Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); Civil War Soliloquies: More Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); “ Themes in African Social and Political Thought ” ( 1978 ); Restoration of Nigerian Democracy ( 1978 ); Matchless Past Performance: My Reply to Chief Awolowo ’ s Challenge ( 1979 ); A Matter of Conscience ( 1979 ); Ideology for Nigeria: Capitalism, Socialism or Welfarism?

Backlash against the school's involvement with the Civil Rights Movement led to the school's closure by the state of Tennessee in 1961.

Thus on 1 May 1961 the TA divisional hedquarters were merged with regular army districts, which were matched with Civil Defence Regions to aid mobilisation for war.

Fulbright raised serious objections to President John F. Kennedy about the impending Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, and also to President Lyndon B. Johnson on the 1965 Dominican Civil War in Santo Domingo.

In 1961, working with the film editor Fred von Bernewitz, he began writing and directing low-budget 16mm films which gained an underground following, beginning with Ball's Bluff ( 1961 ), a fantasy short about a Civil War soldier who awakens in Central Park in 1961.

Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson ( July 18, 1903 – October 17, 1983 ), also known as Val Peterson, was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of Nebraska from 1947 to 1953 ; as director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration from 1953 – 1957 ; as U. S. ambassador to Denmark 1957 – 1961 ; and as U. S. ambassador Finland, 1969 – 1973.

The Eritrean War of Independence ( 1 September 1961 – 29 May 1991 ) was a conflict fought between the Ethiopian government and Eritrean separatists, both before and during the Ethiopian Civil War.

Reconstruction after the Civil War ( 1961 ) ISBN 0-226-26079-8

Goodson-Todman Productions were also involved with three westerns: Jefferson Drum ( 1958 – 1959 ), starring Jeff Richards as a newspaper editor in the Old West ; The Rebel ( 1959 – 1961 ), starring Nick Adams as an ex-Confederate soldier who traveled to the West after the Civil War ( Johnny Cash sang the theme ); and Branded, starring Chuck Connors as a soldier who had wrongly been given a dishonorable discharge from the Army.

In May 1961, he received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from the University of Saskatchewan.

* Hugh Molson, Baron Molson ( 1903 – 1991 ), Member of Parliament for Doncaster ( 1931 – 1935 ) and High Peak ( 1939 – 1961 ), Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation ( 1953 – 1957 ), Minister of Works ( 1957 – 1959 )