In 1917-19, Federico Tinoco Granados ruled as a dictator, and, in 1948, José Figueres Ferrer led an armed uprising in the wake of a disputed presidential election.

In 1949, José Figueres Ferrer abolished the army ; and since then, Costa Rica has been one of the few countries to operate within the democratic system without the assistance of a military.

On December 1, 1948, President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica abolished the military of Costa Rica after victory in the civil war in that year.

José Figueres Ferrer breaking a wall of the Cuartel Bellavista symbolizing the abolition of the Military.

His book, The Outline of History was read by José Figueres Ferrer in 1920 while at MIT, the Costa Rican revolutionary and 3-time president, who took the book to heart, and permanently abolished the military of Costa Rica in 1948, and banned the military in the Constitution.

* 1912 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor ( d. 1992 )

* Miss Sadie Thompson ( 1953 ), a semi-musical version in 3-D, featuring Rita Hayworth and José Ferrer.

* December 1 – José Figueres Ferrer abolishes the army in Costa Rica, making it the first country in history to do so

** José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor ( d. 1992 )

* July 25 – José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica ( d. 1990 )

* January 26 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor ( b. 1912 )

When Lawrence scouts the enemy-held city of Daraa with Ali, he is taken, along with several Arab residents, to the Turkish Bey ( José Ferrer ).

* José Ferrer as the Turkish Bey.

* Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), directed by John Huston-with José Ferrer, Suzanne Flon and Zsa Zsa Gabor

He performed again with Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Fred MacMurray, and José Ferrer in the killer bee action film The Swarm.

The play, starring Henry Fonda as defense attorney Barney Greenwald, opened the same year as the film starring Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg and José Ferrer as Greenwald based on the original novel, but did not affect that film's box-office performance.

Clooney was married twice to the movie star José Ferrer, who was sixteen years her senior.

* I Accuse !, José Ferrer, United Kingdom, 1958.

It stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, and is based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny.

José Ferrer as Lieutenant Barney Greenwald.

After questioning them and Keefer, Lieutenant Barney Greenwald ( José Ferrer ) reluctantly accepts the job of Maryk's defense counsel, which a number of other lawyers have already turned down.

* José Ferrer as Lieutenant Barney Greenwald

This was the second of three films that José Ferrer appeared in for producer Stanley Kramer ; the other two were Cyrano de Bergerac, and Ship of Fools, which is the only one of the three films that Kramer directed.

The most famous film version in English is the 1950 film, with José Ferrer in the title role, a performance for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

He appeared in The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone ( José Quintero, 1961 ), Carry On Cleo ( 1964 ) and Help!

* Cuba ( José Martí Pioneer Organization ) Established in 1961 ; in 2001 it was elected to the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme for its environmental activities.

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.

In March 1961, the CIA helped Cuban exiles in Miami to create the Cuban Revolutionary Council ( CRC ), chaired by José Miró Cardona, former Prime Minister of Cuba in January 1959.

Castroism is influenced by many ideologies but particularly the theories of Cuban revolutionary José Martí, and after 1961, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and according to some, fellow 26th of July Movement partner Che Guevara.

José Manuel Calderón is credited as having recorded the first bachata singles: (“ Borracho de amor ” and “ Que será de mi ( Condena )”) released on 45rpm in 1961.

* José Ortiz Avilla 1961 – 1967

* José Laurel, Jr., ( August 27, 1912-March 18, 1998 ) Member of the Philippine National Assembly from Batangas from 1943 to 1944, Congressman from Batangas ' Third District from 1941 to 1957 and from 1961 to 1972, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1954 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1971, Assemblyman of Regular Batasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986, Member of the Philippine Constitutional Commission of 1986 from June 2 to October 15, 1986 and a running-mate of Carlos P. Garcia of the Nacionalista Party in Philippine presidential election of 1957, placed second in the vice-presidential race against Diosdado Macapagal of Liberal Party ( Philippines )

), by whom he has two daughters: Maria José da Fonseca e Costa Lobo Antunes in 1971 ( wife of José Filipe Pinheiro Chagas Verde Angola, 20 October 1961 and mother of José Maria Lobo Antunes Vasques de Paula Lisbon, 6 July 2000 by António Pedro de Paula e Barros Vasques, born in 1970 ); and Joana da Fonseca e Costa Lobo Antunes in 1973 ( wife of David Vítor Marçal Pinto and mother of João Alfredo Lobo Antunes Marçal Lisbon, São Jorge de Arroios, 22 October 2009 ).

Dana as José Jiménez with Danny Thomas, 1961.

Andrés José Padovani Galarraga (; born June 18, 1961 ) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Montreal Expos (– and ), St. Louis Cardinals (), Colorado Rockies (–), Atlanta Braves (-), Texas Rangers (), San Francisco Giants ( 2001 and ) and Anaheim Angels ().

On 15 April 1961, José Miró Cardona, chairman of the New York-based Cuban Revolutionary Council confirmed Manuel Artime as its Economic Administrator and " Delegate in the Invading Army ".

In 1961, thanks to a group of supporters, they established a patronage in which José Lajud Kuri was named president and so revived the club in order to take part in the 1961-62 Segunda División de México tournament.

Juan Fernando López Aguilar ( born 10 June 1961 ) is a Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party politician, and former Minister of Justice in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

José Luis Cuciuffo ( 1 February 1961 – 11 December 2004 ) was a defender in the starting XI of 1986 FIFA World Cup-winning Argentine national team.

A 1961 film adaptation was directed by José Ferrer.

* José Castro ( baseball ) ( born c. 1961 ), professional baseball coach

In 1961 funding was secured to build the highway that connects the airport to downtown San José.

* José Moreira ( b. 1961 ), Brazilian swimmer

UDV as it is known today however was " re-created " on July 22, 1961 in Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil by the rubber-tapper José Gabriel da Costa ( now known as Mestre Gabriel ).

In 1961, José Miguel da Costa, during excavations around the Castle of Sines, discovered Roman " fishing factories ", and a ceramics kiln to produce amphorae for salted fish, both dating back to the 1st and 2nd centuries.

* José Óscar Sánchez Madan ( 1961 –), Cuban journalist.