The Dresden collection was finally returned to East Germany, despite strong opposition from the museum officials, notably Irina Antonova, who has been running the museum since February 1961.

Joan Miró, Blue I, Bleu II | Blue II, and Blue III, 1961, triptych in October 2010, Centre Pompidou-Metz museum, Metz, France.

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.

The museum was founded by two antique collectors, an American, Dallas Pratt ( August 21, 1914 – May 20, 1994 ) and a Briton, John Judkyn ( 1913 – July 27, 1963 ) and opened to the public for the first time on July 1, 1961.

Thomas M. Messer succeeded Sweeney as director of the museum ( but not the foundation ) in 1961 and stayed for 27 years, the longest tenure of any of the city's major arts institutions ' directors.

Other significant locomotives include: Bonnie Dundee, built in 1900 as a-gauge tank engine before being donated to the R & ER by a member and converted to-gauge, later converted again from tank to tender configuration ; Synolda, a twin to the original loco Sans Pareil, built in 1912, saved from Belle Vue Zoo in 1978 and now in the railway museum ; Shelagh of Eskdale, a 4-6-4 diesel built in 1969 incorporating parts of the Heywood loco Ella ; Perkins, a rebuilt 0-4-4 diesel engine, which started as a quarry shunter before being rebuilt into the steam-outlined Passenger Tractor and then again in 1984 into its current guise ; Douglas Ferreira, a B-B diesel loco constructed in 2005 and named after the general manager of the R & ER from 1961 to 1994.

In 1961, a museum of local history was installed, including a large collection of 16th to 20th century musical instruments.

It sank in 1628 and was raised in 1961 for preservation as a museum ship.

In 1961, Raul Hilberg estimated the number of the Jewish victims at 50, 000, though at the time other sources, including the camp museum, officially estimated 100, 000 Jewish victims and up to 200, 000 non-Jews killed.

To house the museum, in 1974 Noguchi purchased a photogravure plant and gas station located across the street from his New York studio, where he had worked and lived since 1961.

Ham, who in 1961 became the first chimp in space, is buried at the museum in front of the flagpoles.

The other is the Japanese ocean liner Hikawa Maru, preserved in Japan as a museum ship in 1961.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was established as a museum in 1961.

The Modern and Contemporary Art Council, founded in 1961, is the longest-running support group for contemporary art at any museum in the country.

Roman baths were discovered in 1961 and, close by, the remains of a Roman villa containing two sculptures, one of which is the well known " Venus of Fuengirola " exhibited in the town's museum.

The Orangerie had been a technical museum since 1961.

After 1961 and the emigration and expulsion of the last few Germans, the church was made into a museum on the Battle of Legnica by the Polish state authorities.

Joan Miró, Blue I, Blue II, and Blue III 1961, triptych in October 2010, Centre Pompidou-Metz museum, Metz, France.

Pisanello, disegni, fitzwilliam museum pd. 124. 1961. jpg | Boar

Later in 1968, the museum shifted to its present location at Afzalgunj and is administered by a Board of Trustees with the Governor of Andhra Pradesh as ex-officio chairperson under the Salar Jung Museum Act of 1961.

The Manchester Transport Museum Society ( MTMS ) was founded in 1961 with the aim of creating a museum in which to exhibit the society's collection for public display.

Blacklisted from universities in Britain, Nunn May worked for a scientific instruments company, then in 1961 went to work at the University of Ghana, where he conducted research in solid-state physics and created a science museum.

In 1962, courtesy of the Museum Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1961, it was renamed as the Ulster Museum and was formally recognised as a national museum.

Also in 1961, UTC began.

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.

The BBWAA began by polling three writers in each league city in 1938, reducing that number to two per league city in 1961.

Labour's failure to win the General election of 1959 and its rejection of unilateralism in 1961 upset the plans of the CND leadership and, although CND retained the support of a significant minority of the population, from this point onwards its prospects of success began to fade.

Rosenthal, noted for such television plays as Bar Mitzvah Boy, began his career on the show, writing over 150 episodes between 1961 and 1969.

In 1961, while a Recreation Leader and then Recreation Supervisor for the City of Newport Beach, CA he formulated and then began organizing Frisbee golf tournaments at nine of the City's playgrounds he supervised.

Ambassadorial relations began in 1961.

Gore Creatures began in 1961 and continues today as the prozine ( turned webzine ) Midnight Marquee.

With Adenauer's fourth term election in November 1961 and the end of his chancellorship in sight, his " nuclear ambitions " began to taper off.

By early 1961, the British had withdrawn their special court system, which handled the cases of foreigners resident in Kuwait, and the Kuwaiti Government began to exercise legal jurisdiction under new laws drawn up by an Egyptian jurist.

* 1961: Series IIA began production

In 1961 East Germany began to erect a wall between East and West Berlin, which became famous as the Berlin Wall.

The experiments began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.

Two suborbital flights were cancelled ; they began to look embarrassing after the Soviet Union had made a day-long orbital flight in August 1961.

Born in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Miyazaki began his animation career in 1961, when he joined Toei Animation.

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

Plans for the use of eminent domain to remove the shops in the area bounded by Vesey, Church, Liberty, and Fulton streets began in 1961 when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was deciding between the east side of Lower Manhattan and the west side near the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad terminals.

The club began play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League, and spent its first season in Los Angeles, California before moving to San Diego in 1961.

* September 1 is celebrated as the beginning of Eritrea's 30 year armed struggle for independence from Ethiopia, which began in September 1961 and ended in May 1991.

By 1961, it began to be referred to as the " Daytona 500 ", by which it is still commonly known.

While his music had been featured on screen for years and sometimes the whole orchestra in film shorts, Ellington ( with Strayhorn ) now began to work directly on music for movies, contributing scores for Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ) and Paris Blues ( 1961 ).

Shooting began on 15 May 1961 and ended on 20 October 1962.

Graduating in 1961, Falcone began to practice law before being appointed a judge in 1964.

The union began in 1958 and existed until 1961, when Syria seceded from the union.