The play spawned an innovative 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn.

A son was born to Moreno in 1961 by another woman ; the child was adopted by Valentina Ivanova and was named Mario Arturo Moreno Ivanova, causing some references to erroneously refer to him as " Cantinflas ' adopted son ".

In 1961, a film adaptation by Paramount Pictures was directed by Peter Glenville and starred Laurence Harvey, Rita Moreno, and Geraldine Page reprising her role as Alma.

( The role would bring fame and an Oscar to another Puerto Rican, Rita Moreno, in the 1961 film version ).

In 1961 they Baptized the Accordion and Bajo Sexto to the musical group thus bringing the first accordionist by the name of Adan Moreno.

* 1961: Peter Moreno

* The Investigators as Constance Moreno ( 1 episode, 1961 )

Carabao island was organized into a separate constituency known officially as Municipal-District of Carabao Island in June 18, 1961 under Republic Act No. 3423, sponsored by then Congressman Jose D. Moreno taken from Santa Fe.

He landed at Omaha Beach during the Normandy Invasion and retired from the military as a Colonel in 1961.

On 28 January 1961, President Kennedy was briefed, together with all the major departments, on the latest plan ( code-named Operation Pluto ) that involved 1, 000 men to be landed in a ship-borne invasion at Trinidad, Cuba, about 270 km ( 170 mi ) south-east of Havana, at the foothills of the Escambray Mountains in Sancti Spiritus province.

Her 1961 recording of Sailor became her first No. 1 hit in the U. K., while such follow-up recordings as Romeo and My Friend the Sea landed her in the British Top Ten later that year.

On 2 May 1961, the communists overran the airfield at Moung Sing ; the following day, they captured an RLAF C-47 that landed because its crew was unaware of the communist takeover.

The sea-borne invasion force landed on April 17, and fighting lasted until April 19, 1961.

In 1961, the two South Vietnam Navy cruisers, the Van Kiep and the Van Don, landed on the islands of Song Tu Tay ( South-West Cay ).

Bill Black's saxophonist, Ace Cannon, landed a hit with the single " Tuff " in 1961.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role ( fused with the old woman from Runyon's short story " The Brain Goes Home "); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song ( his rendition is not used in the film ).

In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

Clyne became chief minister until Eric Gairy was elected in a by-election and took the role in August 1961.

Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( 1970 – 77 ), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as Laura Petrie ( Dick Van Dyke's wife ) on The Dick Van Dyke Show ( 1961 – 66 ).

Featured performers were George Chakiris, who won an Academy Award as Bernardo in the 1961 film version, as Riff, Marlys Watters as Maria, Don McKay as Tony, and Chita Rivera reprising her Broadway role as Anita.

* Samantha Bond ( born 1961 ), English actress, best known for her role of Miss Moneypenny in the fictional James Bond movies

In 1960, Hoffman was cast in a role in an Off-Broadway production and followed with a walk-on role in a Broadway production in 1961.

In 1961, he introduced Warren Beatty in his first screen appearance with a starring role in Splendor in the Grass ( 1961 ), with Natalie Wood ; the film was nominated for two Oscars and won one.

Leonard Kleinrock conducted early research in queueing theory which would be important in packet switching, and published a book in the related field of digital message switching ( without the packets ) in 1961 ; he also later played a leading role in building and management of the world's first packet-switched network, the ARPANET.

His first regular role on television was as Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore in The Army Game from 1957 – 1961.

In section 17 of his 1961 " addenda " to The Open Society, entitled " Facts, Standards and Truth: A Further Criticism of Relativism ," Popper refused to moderate his criticism of the Hegelian dialectic, arguing that it " played a major role in the downfall of the liberal movement in Germany ,... by contributing to historicism and to an identification of might and right, encouraged totalitarian modes of thought.

He had guest roles in the Sea Hunt series from 1958 to 1960 and had a minor role in The Twilight Zone episode " A Quality of Mercy " in 1961.

Asger Jorn, who invented Situgraphy and Situlogy, had the social role of catalyst and team leader among the members of the SI between 1957 and 1961.

He won two Emmy Awards in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons between 1957 and 1966.

He appeared in a supporting role in the 1961 film, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

Sam Peckinpah's first two choices for the role of Deke Thornton were Richard Harris ( who had co-starred in Major Dundee ) and Brian Keith ( who had worked with Peckinpah on The Westerner ( 1960 ) and The Deadly Companions ( 1961 )).

Among his other films were Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), The Gunfighter ( 1950 ), Moby Dick ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), and Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role.

Robert Strange McNamara ( June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009 ) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

The new company started out with used ships which weren't particularly well-fitted for the role they were meant for, but that was about to change when in 1961 Silja took delivery of the new, the first purpose-built car-passenger ferry in the northern Baltic Sea.

He first appears in a minor role as the leader of SPECTRE in the 1961 novel Thunderball.

The musical of the same name, which starred Nancy Andrews in the title role, opened at the Orpheum Theatre on December 29, 1961, but closed after only 13 performances.

* 1895 – Anita Stewart, American film actress ( d. 1961 )

His first wife died in 1961, and Cole married Anita Rio, a singer, and the widow of painter Eugene Higgins, in 1962.

*( 1961 -) From age 8 Anita Hegerland

*( 1961 -) From age 8 Anita Hegerland

In 1961, A full-keyboard machine, the Anita from Sumlock comptometer Ltd., became the first desktop mechanical calculator to receive an all electronic calculator engine, creating the link in between these two industries and marking the beginning of its decline.

Anita Rau Badami ( born 24 September 1961 ) is an Indian-Canadian novelist.

* Tropical Storm Anita ( 1961 ) ( 60W ), Japan Meteorological Agency analyzed it as a tropical depression, not as a tropical storm