Italian Comedy is generally considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti Ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street ) and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all ' Italiana ( Divorce Italian Style, 1961 ).

In 1961 Dino Risi directed Una vita difficile ( A Difficult Life ), then Il sorpasso ( The Easy Life ), now a cult-movie, followed by: I Mostri ( The Monsters, also known as 15 From Rome ), In nome del Popolo Italiano ( In the Name of the Italian People ) and Profumo di donna ( Scent of a Woman ).

* 1961 – Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress

* 1961 – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian violinist

* 1874 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian politician and economist, 2nd President of the Italian Republic ( d. 1961 )

* Pierluigi Martini ( born 1961 ), Italian racing driver

* 1961 – thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.

* 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.

On the other hand, in 1961 an Italian company co-produced the French Taste of violence, with a Mexican Revolution theme.

* Antonicelli, Franco ( 1961 ) Trent ' anni di storia italiana 1915-1945, Saggi series 295, Torino: Einaudi, 387 p. Italian

In 1957, Fonda married the Italian countess Afdera Franchetti ; they divorced in 1961.

Both Goliath and the Vampires ( 1961 ) and Goliath and the Sins of Babylon ( 1963 ) actually featured the famed superhero Maciste in the original Italian versions, but American distributors didn't feel the name Maciste had any meaning to American audiences.

His father's background helped his career: the elder Bertolucci had helped the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini publish his first novel, and Pasolini reciprocated by hiring Bertolucci as first assistant in Rome on Accattone ( 1961 ), where he met his first wife, Adriana Asti.

In October 1961 Pierre Lagaillarde, who had escaped to Francoist Spain following the 1960 barricades week, was arrested in Madrid, along with the Italian activist Guido Giannettini.

* La Fayette ( film ), also known as Lafayette, a 1961 French / Italian coproduction directed by Jean Dréville, with Orson Welles and Pascale Audret

In 1961 Rangers became the first British team to reach a European final when they contested the Cup Winners ' Cup final against Italian side Fiorentina, only to lose 4 – 1 on aggregate.

* Artist's Shit ( Italian: " Merda d ' artista ") ( 1961 ), by Piero Manzoni, in which the artist canned and sold 90 cans of his own excrement to be sold for their weight in gold ;

* Carlo Anti ( 1889 – 1961 ), Italian archaeologist

Margheriti made two of the first ever Italian space movies in 1960 and 1961 respectively ; Assignment Outer Space ( known as " Space Men " in Italy ) and Battle of the Worlds ( known as " The Planet of Extinct Men " in Italy ).

The novel Põlev lipp ( The Burning Banner ) by Karl Ristikivi ( 1961 ; in Estonian ) depicts Conradin's Italian campaign.

Divorce, Italian Style () is a 1961 Italian comedy film directed by Pietro Germi.

Francis explained in a 1961 television interview that she was fluent in Spanish and Italian, but always had a translator nearby to make sure her translated lyrics and especially her pronunciation were as grammatically correct as possible.

She will receive the 1961 `` Oscar '' at the 24th annual Neiman-Marcus Exposition, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel.

On 5 August 1961, during practice for the 1961 German Grand Prix, Phil Hill became the first person to complete a lap of the Nordschleife in under 9 minutes, with a lap of 8 minutes 55. 2 seconds ( 153. 4 km / h or 95. 3 mph ) in the Ferrari 156 " Sharknose " Formula One car.

* 1961 Grand Prix National des Arts

* 1961: Grand Central Rocket Company acquired as Lockheed Propulsion Company.

In 1961 he received the title of Knight of the Grand Cross in the Légion d ' honneur.

In 1961 the Grand Hotel Toplice in Bled was the site of one of most important international tournaments in chess history.

The AN / FPS-16 radar system was introduced at the Cape, Grand Bahama, San Salvador, Ascension and East Grand Bahama Island between 1958 and 1961.

The last graduating senior class was in 1961, when Grand Mound -- along with the Welton and DeWitt school districts -- consolidated to form the Central Community School District.

The junior-senior high school was closed in 1961, when Welton, along with the former Grand Mound and DeWitt school districts, consolidated to form the Central Community School District.

It has hosted nearly every type of road racing, from the Formula One United States Grand Prix ( 1961 – 1980 ), to one of the few races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series not conducted on an oval speedway.

Under their collective pseudonym, the cousins were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.

* 1961 — Grand Master Edgar Award

Hupp grille badge, on 1941 SkylarkRobert Craig Hupp ( June 2, 1877 in Grand Rapids, Michigan – 1931 ), a former employee of Oldsmobile and Ford, founded the company with his brother Louis Gorham Hupp ( November 13, 1872 in Michigan – December 10, 1961 in Michigan ) in 1908.

Giancarlo Baghetti joined in midseason and became the first driver to win on his debut race ( the 1961 French Grand Prix ).

However, at the end of the season, von Trips crashed at the 1961 Italian Grand Prix and was killed, together with over a dozen spectators.

After 1961, Grand Prix racing did not race on banked circuits anymore.

He won the 1960 and 1961 Turkey Night Grand Prix, the first two years that it was held at Ascot Park.

Moss was stuck with an underpowered Climax-engined Lotus, but managed to win the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix by 3. 6 seconds ( beating the 156s of Richie Ginther, Wolfgang von Trips, and Phil Hill ), and later also the partially wet 1961 German Grand Prix.

The Canadian Grand Prix ( known in French as the Grand Prix du Canada ), abbreviated as gpc, is an annual auto race held in Canada starting in 1961.

The early Canadian Grand Prix was one of the premier events of the new Canadian Sports Car Championship, a series which had been created alongside the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport Park near Toronto in 1961.

* Pepsi Cola Canadian Grand Prix 1961 – 1966

fr: Prix du Gouverneur général 1961

There were rumours that the German Grand Prix might be moved to the more popular track, yet the opposite happened, as the Solitude races were canceled after 1965, while the GP had returned to the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 1961.

Notable exhibits include the 1936 twin engined Alfa Romeo Bimotore which has a top speed of, Jim Clark's World Championship winning Lotus 25, the ' howling ' flat 12 Ferrari 312B, and Stirling Moss's Lotus, in which he defeated the Ferrari works team in the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix.

Two years after making her film debut, in 1961 Perrette Pradier was awarded the prestigious Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as most promising new actress in France for her performance as " Amenita " in the Sacha Guitry film, " Stop Thief.

Mexico has twice won the highest honor in the Palme d ' Or, having won the Grand Prix for Maria Candelaria in 1946 and the Palme d ' Or in 1961 for Viridiana, more than any other Latin American nation.

It was long known around the world as the home of the United States Grand Prix, which it hosted for 20 consecutive years ( 1961 – 1980 ), but it has been home to road racing of nearly every class for over 50 years, including Formula One, the World Sportscar Championship, Can-Am, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and the IndyCar Series.