She will receive the 1961 `` Oscar '' at the 24th annual Neiman-Marcus Exposition, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel.

On 5 August 1961, during practice for the 1961 German Grand Prix, Phil Hill became the first person to complete a lap of the Nordschleife in under 9 minutes, with a lap of 8 minutes 55. 2 seconds ( 153. 4 km / h or 95. 3 mph ) in the Ferrari 156 " Sharknose " Formula One car.

* 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.

* 1961: Grand Central Rocket Company acquired as Lockheed Propulsion Company.

In 1961 he received the title of Knight of the Grand Cross in the Légion d ' honneur.

In 1961 the Grand Hotel Toplice in Bled was the site of one of most important international tournaments in chess history.

The AN / FPS-16 radar system was introduced at the Cape, Grand Bahama, San Salvador, Ascension and East Grand Bahama Island between 1958 and 1961.

The last graduating senior class was in 1961, when Grand Mound -- along with the Welton and DeWitt school districts -- consolidated to form the Central Community School District.

The junior-senior high school was closed in 1961, when Welton, along with the former Grand Mound and DeWitt school districts, consolidated to form the Central Community School District.

It has hosted nearly every type of road racing, from the Formula One United States Grand Prix ( 1961 – 1980 ), to one of the few races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series not conducted on an oval speedway.

Under their collective pseudonym, the cousins were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.

* 1961 — Grand Master Edgar Award

Hupp grille badge, on 1941 SkylarkRobert Craig Hupp ( June 2, 1877 in Grand Rapids, Michigan – 1931 ), a former employee of Oldsmobile and Ford, founded the company with his brother Louis Gorham Hupp ( November 13, 1872 in Michigan – December 10, 1961 in Michigan ) in 1908.

Giancarlo Baghetti joined in midseason and became the first driver to win on his debut race ( the 1961 French Grand Prix ).

However, at the end of the season, von Trips crashed at the 1961 Italian Grand Prix and was killed, together with over a dozen spectators.

After 1961, Grand Prix racing did not race on banked circuits anymore.

In the 1961 Italian Grand Prix on 10 September at Monza, Wolfgang von Trips in his Ferrari collided with Jim Clark's Lotus.

He won the 1960 and 1961 Turkey Night Grand Prix, the first two years that it was held at Ascot Park.

Moss was stuck with an underpowered Climax-engined Lotus, but managed to win the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix by 3. 6 seconds ( beating the 156s of Richie Ginther, Wolfgang von Trips, and Phil Hill ), and later also the partially wet 1961 German Grand Prix.

The Canadian Grand Prix ( known in French as the Grand Prix du Canada ), abbreviated as gpc, is an annual auto race held in Canada starting in 1961.

The early Canadian Grand Prix was one of the premier events of the new Canadian Sports Car Championship, a series which had been created alongside the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport Park near Toronto in 1961.

* Pepsi Cola Canadian Grand Prix 1961 – 1966

fr: Prix du Gouverneur général 1961

There were rumours that the German Grand Prix might be moved to the more popular track, yet the opposite happened, as the Solitude races were canceled after 1965, while the GP had returned to the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 1961.

Notable exhibits include the 1936 twin engined Alfa Romeo Bimotore which has a top speed of, Jim Clark's World Championship winning Lotus 25, the ' howling ' flat 12 Ferrari 312B, and Stirling Moss's Lotus, in which he defeated the Ferrari works team in the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix.

Two years after making her film debut, in 1961 Perrette Pradier was awarded the prestigious Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as most promising new actress in France for her performance as " Amenita " in the Sacha Guitry film, " Stop Thief.

Mexico has twice won the highest honor in the Palme d ' Or, having won the Grand Prix for Maria Candelaria in 1946 and the Palme d ' Or in 1961 for Viridiana, more than any other Latin American nation.

It was long known around the world as the home of the United States Grand Prix, which it hosted for 20 consecutive years ( 1961 – 1980 ), but it has been home to road racing of nearly every class for over 50 years, including Formula One, the World Sportscar Championship, Can-Am, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and the IndyCar Series.

The year 1961 marks the fourteenth anniversary of the unification of our Armed Forces under the National Security Act of 1947.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

I again proposed a reduction in the Army National Guard and Army Reserve -- from their present strengths of 400,000 and 300,000, respectively, to 360,000 and 270,000 by the end of the fiscal year 1961.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

A formula to supply players for the new Minneapolis Vikings and the problem of increasing the 1961 schedule to fourteen games will be discussed by National Football League owners at a meeting at the Hotel Warwick today.

National Party government in 1948, which instituted apartheid, and South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth in 1961, ended any prospect of incorporation of the territories into South Africa.

Political developments, including the formation and growth of the Tanganyika African National Union ( TANU ), led to Tanganyika attaining independence from colonial rule in December 1961.

In 1961, the Wyandotte National Wildlife Refuge was founded by congressional order.

National Periodical Publications became publicly traded on the stock market in 1961.

Apocryphal legend has it that in 1961, either Jack Liebowitz or Irwin Donenfeld of DC Comics ( then known as National Periodical Publications )

* 1961 – Steve Penney, National Hockey League goaltender

Marshall Nirenberg and Heinrich J. Matthaei were the first to elucidate the nature of a codon in 1961 at the National Institutes of Health.

Pei was able to return to hands-on design when he was approached in 1961 by Walter Orr Roberts to design the new Mesa Laboratory for the National Center for Atmospheric Research outside Boulder, Colorado.

* 1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.

* National Geographic Society's Special Gold Medal in 1961

Lawrencium was first synthesized by the nuclear-physics team led by Albert Ghiorso on February 14, 1961, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the University of California.

Lawrencium was first synthesized by the nuclear-physics team of Albert Ghiorso, Torbjørn Sikkeland, Almon Larsh, Robert M. Latimer, and their co-workers on February 14, 1961, at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory ( now called the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ) at the University of California.

* 1961 – Jackson National Life Insurance Company founded.

The Vikings joined the National Football League ( NFL ) as an expansion team in 1960, and first took the field for the 1961 season.

Five months later in January 1960, after significant pressure from the NFL, the ownership group, along with Bernie Ridder, reneged on its agreement with the AFL and then was awarded the National Football League's 14th franchise with play to begin in 1961.

Marangella previously served on the National Spiritual Assembly of France in 1961, and was declared a Covenant-breaker when he accepted Mason Remey as the next Guardian.

In 1961, James Robertson and his associates at Brookhaven National Laboratory built the first single-plane PET scan, nicknamed the " head-shrinker.

During the 1961 season, Clemente was selected as the starting right fielder for the National League in the All-Star game.

He led the National League in batting average four times ( 1961, 1964, 1965, and 1967 ), led the National League in hits twice ( 1964 and 1967 ), and won the Most Valuable Player award in the 1966 season, when he hit. 317 while setting career highs in home runs ( 29 ) and RBIs ( 119 ).