In 1961 Illich founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación ( CIDOC ) at Cuernavaca in Mexico, in order to " counterfoil " the Vatican's participation in the " modern development " of the so-called Third World.

* 1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.

In cooperation with the South African Communist Party, MK was founded in 1961.

The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Father Thomas Carroll, who founded the Carroll Centre for the Blind, wrote Blindness: What It Is, What It Does and How to Live with It in 1961.

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

* 1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.

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

* 1961 – Jackson National Life Insurance Company founded.

In 1944, the independence party Istiqlāl was founded, supported by the Sultan Muhammad V ( 1927 – 1961 ).

It was introduced around the time the team was founded in 1961.

* 1961 – John Schnatter, American businessman, founded Papa John's Pizza

* 1961 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.

Inspired by the Revolution and the FLN in Algeria, the FSLN itself was founded in 1961 by Carlos Fonseca, Silvio Mayorga, Tomás Borge and others as The National Liberation Front ( FLN ).

* Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, officially founded in 1961 is actually composed of the old town of San Félix at the east and the new modern planned town of Puerto Ordaz at the west of Caroní river in Bolívar state.

The Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship ( UUCF, founded 1945 ) predates the consolidation of the American Unitarian Association ( AUA ) and Universalist Church of America ( UCA ) into the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) in 1961.

Adopting Marxism-Leninism as his guiding ideology, in 1961 Castro proclaimed the socialist nature of the Cuban revolution, and in 1965 became First Secretary of the newly founded Communist Party.

Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961 ) was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology.

* Physicians for Social Responsibility ( PSR ) -- founded by Bernard Lown in 1961.

* Transition Magazine, founded by Rajat Neogy ( 1938 – 1995 ), a Ugandan of Indian ancestry, was published from 1961 to 1976 on the African continent and was revived in 1991 in the United States

After spending several years as assistant editor of Practical Wireless and Instrument Practice, Sinclair founded Sinclair Radionics in 1961, where he produced the first slim-line electronic pocket calculator in 1972 ( the Sinclair Executive ).

In 1955, ABC established a recording division, the AmPar Record Corporation, which founded and operated the popular label ABC-Paramount Records ( which became ABC Records in 1965 ) and the noted jazz label Impulse Records, created in 1961.

It was founded in Spain, on January 1961, by former officers, Pierre Lagaillarde ( who led the 1960 Siege of Algiers ), General Raoul Salan ( who took part in the 1961 Algiers putsch or " Generals ' Uprising ") and Jean-Jacques Susini, along with other members of the French Army, including Yves Guérin-Sérac, and former members of the French Foreign Legion from the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 54 ).

Two federal Migratory Bird Sanctuaries were founded on the island in 1961.

Doumak founded the Doumak company in 1961 on the strength of his patent on this process.

*“ Prémio Reinaldo Ferreira ”, Centro de Arte e Cultura da Beira, 1961

*“ Prémio de Ensaio ”, Centro de Arte e Cultura da Beira, 1961

Natili started in Formula One with Scuderia Centro Sud in 1961 with a retirement from the Syracuse Grand Prix, followed by a failure to qualify for the Naples Grand Prix.

This base was used, at the beginning of the 1960s, for the first sounding rockets launches carried out by the CRA ( Centro Ricerche Aerospaziali ) in co-operation with the Italian Air Force and NASA Three campaigns of Nike Asp and Nike Cajun launches took place, in 1961 and 1963.

* Ercole Al Centro Della Terra ( 1961 ) Italy.

* 1961 – Pete de Freitas, Spanish drummer ( Echo & the Bunnymen ) ( d. 1989 )

* 1961 – Michaela Dornonville de la Cour, Swedish singer and actress ( Army of Lovers )

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.

Ivoirian members of the French Troupes de Marine who had been born in Côte d ' Ivoire were transferred to Abidjan in October 1961 to start establishing the armed forces.

This range consist of Junior ( basic model ) made from 1959 to 1961, Junior de Luxe ( a little enhanced ) from 1961 to 1963, F11 ( a little larger ) and F12 ( larger and bigger engine ) from 1963 to 1965 and F12 Roadster from 1964 to1965.

Some of the first films of this new genre were Godard's Breathless ( À bout de souffle, 1960 ), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Rivette's Paris Belongs to Us ( Paris nous appartient, 1958-distributed in 1961 ), starring Jean-Claude Brialy and Truffaut's The 400 Blows ( Les Quatre Cent Coups, 1959 ) starring Jean-Pierre Léaud.

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 – Askeladden og de gode hjelperne

* 1879 – Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author ( d. 1961 )

* 1961: La Princesse de Clèves directed by Jean Delannoy

* 1961: La Princesse de Clèves directed by Jean Delannoy

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

* 1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by foes of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar was overthrown.

* Robson, John Adam ( 1961 ), Wyclif and the Oxford Schools: The Relation of the " Summa de Ente " to Scholastic Debates at Oxford in the Later Fourteenth Century, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Among the last bases to be closed were those at Kati, on 8 June 1961, Tessalit ( un base aérienne secondaire ), on 8 July 1961, Gao ( la base aérienne 163 de Gao ), on 2 August 1961, and Air Base 162 at Bamako ( la base aérienne 162 de Bamako ), on 5 September 1961.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty () ( 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961 ) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre ( who later stated he had been " converted " to Marxism by Merleau-Ponty ) and Simone de Beauvoir.

He was awarded the Chair of Philosophy at the Collège de France from 1952 until his death in 1961, making him the youngest person to have been elected to a Chair.