In 1961, the National Wrestling Alliance voted him into a NWA World Heavyweight Championship match.

After winning the NWA championship from Pat O ' Connor in Chicago in 1961, Rogers accepted the belt and then took the microphone and shouted, " To a nicer guy it couldn't happen!

During the 1960s he received thirteen opportunities to wrestle for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, including eleven against " Nature Boy " Buddy Rogers between 1961 and 1963.

The Florida version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship existed from 1961 until 1969.

The San Francisco, California version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship existed from 1950 until 1961, and then from 1968 until 1979.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

About 70 North Providence taxpayers made appeals to the board of tax assessors for a review of their 1961 tax assessments during the last two days at the town hall in Centredale.

* 1961 – A large explosion on board the in the Persian Gulf kills 238.

In 1961, AH published Roberts ' Gettysburg, which is considered to be the first board wargame based entirely on a historical battle.

For years Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney supported the museum single-handedly, as did her daughter, Flora Whitney Miller, after her, and until 1961 its board was largely family-run.

In 1961, the need for outside support finally forced the board to add outside trustees, including bankers Roy Neuberger and Arthur G. Altschul.

However, some Cunard stockholders questioned the plan at the June 1961 board meeting because trans-Atlantic flights were gaining in popularity.

* Carol Ann Drazba, a 1961 graduate of Dunmore High School, was one of the first two American women to be killed in Vietnam when the helicopter that she and fellow nurse Elizabeth Ann Jones of Allendale, S. C., were riding in crashed on February 18, 1966, killing all seven people on board.

* Oberhausen 1961, board 4, 6 / 8 (+ 4 − 0 = 4 ), board and team gold medals ;

So in January 1961, Scherick called Arledge into his office, and asked him to attend the annual AAU board of governors meeting.

However, Solti abruptly resigned the position in 1961 without officially taking the post after learning that the Philharmonic board of directors failed to consult him before naming then 26 year-old Zubin Mehta to be assistant conductor of the orchestra.

Edison was board chairman of the merged company until he retired in 1961.

He died July 15, 1961, two weeks after resigning from the UGG board and barely three after resigning as President.

* Oberhausen 1961: board 5, 9 / 9 (+ 7 − 0 = 2 ), board and team gold medals ;

In July 1961, the official presidential aircraft was stationed here, known as " Air Force One " when the president is on board.

* Oberhausen 1961, USSR board 3, 6 / 8 (+ 4 = 4 − 0 ), team gold, board gold ;

He played board one for the Soviet team at the Helsinki 1961 Student Olympiad, scoring a strong + 8,

At one board meeting in 1961 when Shankly insisted the club make offers for two outstanding players in Scotland, the tune was still " we can't afford them " but Sawyer stepped in and said: " We can't afford not to buy them ".

With Sawyer's help, Shankly signed them both in the spring of 1961 and challenged the Liverpool board to " sack me if they can't play ".

The body featuring faded fiesta red paint over desert sand paint is based on Pino's 1961 Precision Bass while the neck shape and round-lam rosewood fret board are based on Pino's 1963 sunburst Precision Bass.

In 1961, the governing board of St. John's thus approved plans to establish a second college at Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Business Week ( Aug. 9, 1961 ) reports that the United Aircraft Company, against which the International Association of Machinists had undertaken a strike, decided to keep its plants operating.

When they decided to broadcast the programme, national transmission was changed from Wednesday and Friday at 19: 00 to Monday and Wednesday at 19: 30 and the programme became fully networked under this new arrangement from episode 25 on Monday 6 March 1961.

In 1961, the country had just adopted the parliamentary government system, but in a referendum held in 1963, the Brazilian population was consulted about which government system should be withheld in the country and it was decided to have Brazil return to a Presidential system.

On 20 March 1961 the Mixed Armistice Commission decided that " this act by Israel is a breach of the General Armistice Agreement ".

U. S President John F. Kennedy decided in November 1961 to substantially increase American military aid to South Vietnam.

After a short time selling " lab modules " in the form of simple logic elements from the TX-2 design, the newly-formed Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) decided to produce a " cleaned up " TX-0 design, and delivered it in 1961 as the PDP-1.

In October 1961, fate intervened in the shape and other attributes of one-legged retail chemist from Bolton, Leggy Mountbatten ( a parody of Brian Epstein ), who, after falling into " The Cavern " one night, decided he hated the boys ' music, but liked the cut of their jib ( and especially the cut of their trousers ).

In 1961 enrollment showed 51 students and the congregation decided to build a parish hall in connection with the new school.

Scoring ties happened in the 1961 – 62, 1979 – 80, and 1994 – 95 seasons, all of them being decided by the first tiebreaker of scoring more goals.

For all that, in June 1961 Bray still decided to move and despite his recent marriage “ lmost every day went round, often spending a good part of the day or a large part of the evening there .” “ Oddly enough, this side of his life was well known about in Paris … natural reserve and well-developed sense of decorum were allied to his fear of giving offence to Suzanne .” Anthony Cronin notes that strangely – or perhaps not so strangely – during this time he was often to be found talking “ fervently and seriously about suicide .” Despite his unwillingness to do much about it he was clearly suffering badly from guilt.

The Chantays were formed in 1961 when five high-school friends decided to start their own band.

Douglas, after much consultation, with Coldwell, Lewis and his caucus, decided in June 1961 to reluctantly contest the leadership of the New Party.

Chelsea did not win any major trophies while Greaves was playing for them and in 1961, against Greaves ' wishes, they decided to sell him.

A press release issued by the Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo stated that, "... in order to pay a tribute to this great man, now vanished from the scene, and to his colleagues, all of whom have fallen victim to the shameless intrigues of the great financial Powers of the West ... the Government has decided to proclaim Tuesday, 19 September 1961, a day of national mourning.

Bristol decided in 1961 to cease production of its engine and instead to use Chrysler V8 engines.

However, after having married Barbara Bash in July 1960, and with their first child ( Jack Jr .) born in September 1961, Nicklaus then decided to become a professional golfer in late 1961, to best support his family.

However, after breaking his foot in the summer of 1961 during a baseball game and thinking about his college decision outside of basketball, Bradley decided to enroll at Princeton due to its record in preparing students for government or United States Foreign Service work.

The name was only finally decided just days before the newest town of the Kimberley Region, being gazetted on 10 February 1961.

Billy Shaw was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills in the 1961 NFL and AFL Drafts, but decided to sign with the Bills.

On 31 January 1961, the final location of the new city was decided ( southwest of Mount Kidod ), as well as details about road and water connections.

Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U. S. 643 ( 1961 ), was a landmark case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against " unreasonable searches and seizures ," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts, as well, as had previously been the law, as in federal criminal law prosecutions in federal courts.

In 1961 after further strikes the railroad apparently decided it was no longer viable and applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for complete abandonment.

In 1961 he decided to enroll in the V. M. Komarov Higher Military Flying School at Yeisk and simultaneously studied at the Taganrog State University of Radioengineering.