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* 1961 – Ed Gillespie, American political strategist

* 1961 – John Podhoretz, American columnist and political pundit

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.

Internal political autonomy was granted in 1961.

* 1961 – Ann Coulter, American political commentator

Burns identifies four successive main themes of the First Ladyship: as public woman ( 1900 – 1929 ); as political celebrity ( 1932 – 1961 ); as political activist ( 1964 – 1977 ); and as political interloper ( 1980 – 2001 ).

In 1961, when a purely political campaign for independence had made predictably little progress, the PAIGC adopted guerrilla tactics.

In October 1961, his political defeat was complete at the 22nd party congress when he was excluded from election to the Central Committee.

* 1961 – Paul Begala, American political commentator

Sierra Leone played a significant part in modern African political liberty and nationalism, and became an independent nation in 1961.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

* The Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union gave a peaceful outlet to the political and military tensions of the Cold War, leading to the first human spaceflight with the Soviet Union's Vostok 1 mission in 1961, and man's first landing on another world — the Moon — with America's Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

* September 1 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist ( d. 1961 )

In Africa, 1950 saw the first French-run Méditerranée-le Cap, a rally from the Mediterranean to South Africa ; it was run on and off until 1961, when the new political situation hastened its demise.

Lawrence " Larry " Lessig ( born June 3, 1961 ) is an American academic and political activist.

After suppressing Vietminh political cadres who were legally campaigning between 1955 and 1959 for the promised elections, Diem faced a growing communist-led uprising that intensified by 1961, headed by the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam ( NLF or, derogatively, Viet Cong ).

On 23 January 1961 Kasa-Vubu promoted Mobutu to major-general ; de Witte argues that this was a political move, ' aim to strengthen the army, the president's sole support, and Mobutu's position within the army.

The Sixth World Congress in 1961 marked a lessening of the political divisions between the majority of supporters of the International Secretariat and the leadership of the SWP in the United States.

Wanklyn, ( 1961 ) argues that Ratzel's theory was designed to advance science, and that politicians distorted it for political goals.

From 1960 to 1961, the combination of poor planning during the Great Leap Forward, political movements incited by the government, as well as unusual weather patterns and natural disasters resulted in widespread famine and many deaths.

Portrayed by Steve Reeves, he was the main character in the 1961 sword-and-sandal peplum Guerra di Troia ( The Trojan War ).

Mumy also played the character of young Pip, a boy who enjoyed playing with his father but was always ignored, in the episode " In Praise of Pip " ( September 1963 ), and the character of Billy Bayles, a boy who talks to his dead grandmother through a toy telephone, in the episode " Long Distance Call " ( March 1961 ).

The opening title music with the car on the road had been used in a 1961 episode of the TV series " Ben Casey " entitled " I Remember a Lemon Tree ," that piece of music accompanying each time that George C. Scott's character, a doctor who is secretly a drug addict, is injecting himself with morphine.

* Corporal Snark, a minor character in Catch-22 ( 1961 ) by Joseph Heller

He appeared in more than 90 films, including The Great Imposter ( 1961 ), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ( as the man helping the Tippi Hedren character with her rental boat ), Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ), Pocketful Of Miracles ( 1961 ) and, in a cameo, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

The character made its first appearance in 1942 ( originally named Super Mouse ), and subsequently appeared in 80 theatrical films produced between 1942 and 1961.

* Marilyn Ghigliotti ( born 1961 ), actress who played the character Veronica Loughran in Kevin Smith's cult hit Clerks.

* Clifford Meth ( born 1961 ), author and editor, lived in Rockaway from 1963 – 1980 and often references the town as the home of his fictional character " Hank Magitz ".

Her first, The Comforters ( 1957 ), concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel ; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961 ), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future to see the various fates that befall its characters.

Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 romantic drama film that tells a story of sexual repression, love, heartbreak, and manic-depression, from which the character Deanie suffers.

In Alfred Vohrer's Die toten Augen von London ( 1961 ), his character refused any personal guilt for his evil deeds and claimed to have only followed the orders given to him ; Kinski's performance reflected the post-war Germans ' reluctance to take responsibility for what had happened during World War II.

Karina won the Best Actress Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1961 for her interpretation of the character Angela in the film A Woman Is a Woman.

Zorglub is a fictional character in the Belgian comic strip Spirou et Fantasio, created by Greg and André Franquin, and first appeared in the serialised story Z comme Zorglub in Spirou in 1959, later published in the diptych albums " Z comme Zorglub " ( 1961 ) and " L ' ombre du Z " ( 1962 ).

In 1961, Berwin Novelties introduced a home version of the character that included an Oswald body, creative pencils to draw the eyes and nose and a " magic mirror " that automatically turned a reflection upside down.

Bridges gained wide recognition as Mike Nelson, the main character in the television series Sea Hunt, created by Ivan Tors, which ran in syndication from 1958 – 1961.

He played the character Christopher Rolf in the episode of the Rifleman " Stopover " originally aired on April 25, 1961.

The character Ursus was featured in a number of Italian adventure films from 1961 to 1964.

In the 1961 episode " Mr. Dingle, the Strong ", Meredith plays the title character, a timid weakling who, as the subject of a space alien's experiment on human nature, suddenly acquires superhuman strength.

* The producers of the 2004 film Sideways had originally wanted the character Miles Raymond's treasure bottle to be a Pétrus, which ultimately became a 1961 Château Cheval Blanc.

Perry Rhodan is the name of a science fiction series published since 1961 in Germany, as well as the name of the main character.

Rick & the Ravens ( the " and " is always written with an ampersand character ), founded in 1961, was the band Ray Manzarek was in before he joined The Doors.

Anthony Warlow ( born 18 November 1961 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia ) is an Australian opera and musical theatre performer, noted for his character acting and considerable vocal range ( from tenor to baritone ).