* 1961 – Rory Bremner, Scottish comedian

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

* 1961 – Enedina Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker

* 1961 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer, musician, and composer ( Dead Can Dance )

* 1961 – Charles Mann, American football player

* 1961 – Magda Szubanski, Australian actress

* 1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.

* 1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player

* 1961 – Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer, and actress

* 1961 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer and director

* 1961 – Helmut Winklhofer, German footballer

* 1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor ( d. 1961 )

* 1961 – Brad Gilbert, American tennis player

* 1961 – John Key, New Zealand politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand

* 1961 – Amy Stiller, American comedian and actress

* 1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants ' attempts to escape to the West.

* 1961 – Sam Champion, American weatherman

* 1961 – Christos Christodoulou, Greek basketball player

* 1961 – Dawnn Lewis, American actress

* 1961 – Stuart Maconie, English journalist, author, and broadcaster

* 1961 – Neil Mallender, England cricketer

* 1961 – Tom Perrotta, American novelist

* 1961 – Sunil Shetty, Indian actor and producer

* 1961 – Cary Stayner, American serial killer

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

Since April 15, 1962, is on Sunday your return for the calendar year 1961 will be timely filed if it is filed on or before Monday, April 16, 1962.

If you were required to file a declaration of estimated tax for the calendar year 1961, it is not necessary to pay the fourth installment otherwise due on January 15, 1962, if you file your income tax return Form 1040, and pay your tax in full for the calendar year 1961 by January 31, 1962.

The filing of an original or amended declaration, otherwise due on January 15, 1962, is also waived, if you file your Form 1040 for 1961 and pay the full tax by January 31, 1962.

Farmers, for these purposes, have until February 15, 1962, to file Form 1040 and pay the tax in full for the calendar year 1961.

His return for the period January 1 to June 20, 1961, is due April 16, 1962.

The stepped-up defense procurement called for in the 1961 Budget has already begun to make itself felt in an upturn in orders for military electronic equipment and the components that go into it, and it has been suggested that an additional $2 billion increase in total defense spending may be requested for fiscal 1962.

Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, and was supported by the two-man Gemini program which ran concurrently with it from 1962 to 1966.

The show was first announced in The New York Times on October 5, 1961: " For the winter of 1962, Laurents is nurturing another musical project, The Natives Are Restless.

The company dissolved in 1960, but Hecht would produce two more films in which Lancaster acted, under Norma Productions, ( 1961 ) and Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ).

In addition, John Frankenheimer directed five films with Lancaster: The Young Savages ( 1961 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Train ( 1964 ), and The Gypsy Moths ( 1969 ).

Brabham had a poor season, scoring only four points, and — having run his own private Coopers in non-championship events during 1961 — left the company in 1962 to drive for his own team: the Brabham Racing Organisation, using cars built by Motor Racing Developments.

60, 000 people participated in the 1959 march and 150, 000 in the 1961 and 1962 marches.

In April 1961, Jed Stone made his first appearance and returned the following year in 1962.

As the ITV network grew over the next few years, the programme was transmitted by these new stations on these dates onward: Westward Television from episode 40 on 29 April 1961, Border Television from episode 76 on 1 September 1961, Grampian Television from episode 84 on 30 September 1961, Channel Television from episode 180 on 1 September 1962 and Teledu Cymru ( north and west Wales ) from episode 184 on 14 September 1962.

The 1960s brought politically driven dramas focusing on war, such as Judgment at Nuremberg ( 1961 ), Flashback ( 1969 ) and The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 ).

The economy seems to be sailing along on an even keel and the 1961 hurricane season and auto strikes are at an end so they can't be blamed in November.

There will be a stag dinner Friday evening at the Denver Country Club which will precede the opening of the 1961 golf season.

Ruth was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season ( 1927 ), a mark first eclipsed by Roger Maris in 1961 with 61.

One month prior to the end of the 1961 season, Richards resigned as the team's skipper to become the general manager of the expansion Houston Colt 45s.

By the 1961 Formula One season, the Lotus and Ferrari teams had developed the mid-engined approach further than Cooper.

The two teams met in the first regular season game the Cowboys ever played in 1960 ( a 35 – 28 loss to the Steelers ), the first-ever regular season victory for the expansion Cowboys in 1961, and would later meet in three Super Bowls, all of them closely contested events.

He hit 58 home runs in 1938, equaling Jimmie Foxx's mark for the most home runs in one season by any player between 1927 ( when Babe Ruth set a record of 60 ) and 1961 ( when Roger Maris surpassed it ).

The first team was a collection of cast-offs culled mostly through an expansion draft after the 1961 season.

Coventry Climax were late in producing the smaller 1. 5-litre engine required for the 1961 season and the Cooper-Climaxes were outclassed by new mid-engined cars from Porsche, Lotus and championship-winners Ferrari.

The Vikings joined the National Football League ( NFL ) as an expansion team in 1960, and first took the field for the 1961 season.

From the team's first season in 1961 to 1982, the team had called Metropolitan Stadium in suburban Bloomington home.

Since the team's first season in 1961, the Vikings have had one of the highest winning percentages in the NFL.

" Meet the Mets " is the Mets ' signature song, written in 1961, one year before the first season, by Bill Katz and Ruth Roberts.

The Eagles had a good 1961 season and then fell on hard times in 1962.

During the 1961 season, Clemente was selected as the starting right fielder for the National League in the All-Star game.

He led the National League in batting average four times ( 1961, 1964, 1965, and 1967 ), led the National League in hits twice ( 1964 and 1967 ), and won the Most Valuable Player award in the 1966 season, when he hit. 317 while setting career highs in home runs ( 29 ) and RBIs ( 119 ).

The 1961 / 62 Australian season was purely a domestic one, with no touring international team.

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.

The Chargers only spent one season in Los Angeles before moving to San Diego in 1961.

They finished the regular season with 11 straight wins ( tying the 1961 team record & is also tied for the 5th longest win streak entering the playoffs ), finished with an impressive 13 – 3 record, ( including 4 – 0 in December, extending their NFL record with 18 straight wins in December, & also tying the Dolphins 1970 – 1974 in November for the longest winning streak in any month ).

In 1961, the franchise posted their worst regular season record with a 1 – 12 – 1 showing.

Future President Dwight Eisenhower, who played against him that season, recalled of Thorpe in a 1961 speech:

This usage arose after the 1961 baseball season in which Roger Maris of the New York Yankees broke Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season home run record.