In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

later came a 1961 cut on the West Coast ( still pending elsewhere ) of $.07/cwt on 70,000 lb-plus carloads ( which works out to more than $4/mbf on that portion of the load in excess of 70,000 lb.

Ex-Oriole Clint Courtney, now catching for the A's is all for the American League's 1961 expansion to the West Coast.

* 1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants ' attempts to escape to the West.

After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin — the capital of East Germany — and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall ( 1961 – 1989 ).

As a result of the political and economical tensions brought on by the Cold War, on 13 August 1961, East Germany began building of the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin and similar barriers around West Berlin, and events escalated to a tank standoff at Checkpoint Charlie on 27 October 1961.

From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989, East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall.

The most prominent frontier barrier was the Berlin Wall, constructed in 1961, which finally closed the loop hole in the East German border between East Berlin and West Berlin.

In 1961, the East German government under Walter Ulbricht erected a barbed-wire barrier around West Berlin, officially called the antifaschistischer Schutzwall ( anti-fascist protective barrier ).

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.

Jamaica joined nine other UK territories in the Federation of the West Indies in 1958 but withdrew after Jamaican voters rejected membership in 1961.

In 1948, the Federal Capital Territory of Pakistan was created, comprising approximately of Karachi and surrounding areas, but this was merged into the province of West Pakistan in 1961.

In 1961 East Germany began to erect a wall between East and West Berlin, which became famous as the Berlin Wall.

< u > Russian and the West, under Lenin and Stalin </ u >, NY Mentor Books, 1961 pp 318, 319 </ ref > Stalin's invasions were, however ( as the intent to accomplish these was not communicated to the Germans beforehand ), a severe irritant to Berlin and prompted concern that Stalin was seeking to form an anti-German bloc .< ref > Cartier, Raymond.

West Berlin inevitably chose the Kurfürstendamm and the area around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, while East Berlin built up Alexanderplatz and turned Frankfurter Allee ( which they renamed Stalinallee in 1949, Karl-Marx-Allee in 1961 ), into their own showpiece boulevard.

In more recent times, Winston Churchill's government privatized the British steel industry in the 1950s, and West Germany's government embarked on large-scale privatization, including selling its majority stake in Volkswagen to small investors in a public share offering in 1961.

The 1961 film of West Side Story — set among New York gangs – featured the Jets as white youths, equivalent to Shakespeare's Montagues, while the Sharks, equivalent to the Capulets, are Puerto Rican.

The armed forces were formed after independence in 1961, on the basis of elements of the former British Royal West African Frontier Force, then present in the country.

The first SETI conference took place at Green Bank, West Virginia in November 1961.

In July 1961 during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 KGB chief Alexander Shelepin sent a memorandum to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev containing an array of proposals to create a situation in various areas of the world which would favor dispersion of attention and forces by the US and their satellites, and would tie them down during the settlement of the question of a German peace treaty and West Berlin.

* 1961 – Virginia Madsen, American actress

She made her stage debut in 1961, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet.

* George A. Cevasco, J. K. Huysmans in England and America: A Bibliographical Study ( The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, n. d., c. 1961 )

* Vanessa Bell ( 1879 – 1961 ), painter, sister of Virginia Woolf lived at 46 Gordon Square.

The first graduating class, in 1961, included Nancy Virginia Hess and her sister Dorothy Ann Hess.

* Hovah Hall Underwood, First Lady of West Virginia from 1957 to 1961 and 1997 to 2001

Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop ( August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984 ) was an American dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome.

Openly lesbian, she lives with her partner, Heather Roan Poe ( born April 11, 1961 ), in Great Falls, Virginia.

* Richmond ( independent city ) with Henrico County, Virginia ( 1961 )

* Richmond Motel, Richmond, Virginia, 1961

* Terry Kilgore ( born 1961 ), American politician serving in the Virginia House of Delegates

In 1961, the Jamestown Foundation of the Commonwealth of Virginia ( now the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation ) offered a $ 500 award for " the best historical information " on Rolfe's " appearance and mannerisms ".

Kennedy was born in 1967 to Virginia Joan Kennedy ( née Bennett ) and Edward Moore Kennedy, Sr. ( known as " Ted ") in Brighton, Massachusetts, the third of three children, after Kara Anne Kennedy ( born 1960-died 2011 ) and Edward Moore Kennedy, Jr. ( born 1961 ).

Princess Elizabeth married on 21 January 1961 in a civil ceremony in Manassas, Virginia to Howard Oxenberg ( 1919 – 2010 ), an American clothing manufacturer, by whom she is mother of actress Catherine Oxenberg and sweater designer Christina Oxenberg.

He was the 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia from 1957 until 1961 and from 1997 until 2001.

The medals were presented posthumously to the next of kin of each of the Four Chaplains by Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker at Ft. Myer, Virginia on January 18, 1961.

His best-known film scores include The Rainmaker ( 1956 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), The Misfits ( 1961 ), The Children's Hour ( 1961 ) Cleopatra ( 1963 ), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

* Virginia Woolf ( 1882 – 1941 ), British writer, and her sister Vanessa Bell ( 1879 – 1961 ), painter and interior designer, lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate until 1904.

On March 2, 1961, West Virginia Legislature finally elevated Marshall to university status, and the legislation was signed by Governor W. W. Barron.

Also in 1961, WMUL-FM began operations as the first public radio station in West Virginia.

" Baldy " Harper in 1961, the organization later began an association with George Mason University and moved to Fairfax, Virginia in 1985.

John Martin Kruk ( born February 9, 1961 in Charleston, West Virginia ) is a former Major League Baseball player and current baseball analyst for ESPN.