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 played in Los Angeles in 1960 and moved to San Diego in 1961.

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

The San Giovenale altarpiece was only discovered in 1961 in the church of San Giovenale at Cascia di Reggello, which is very close to Masaccio's hometown.

* Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, officially founded in 1961 is actually composed of the old town of San Félix at the east and the new modern planned town of Puerto Ordaz at the west of Caroní river in Bolívar state.

The San Francisco national chapter retained the name " Mattachine Society ", while the New York chapter became " Mattachine Society of New York, Inc ." Other independent groups using the name Mattachine were formed in Washington, D. C. ( Mattachine Society of Washington, 1961 ), and in Chicago ( Mattachine Midwest, 1965 ).

Follow his graduation from Reed College, Appleton moved to San Francisco, California where his first child was born ( Jennifer Appleton, December 20, 1961 ).

During his years at Los Alamos, Ulam was a visiting professor at: Harvard, 1951 / 52, MIT, 1956 / 57, the University of California, San Diego, 1963, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1961 / 62 and 1965 / 67.

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.

* Abraham Lincoln Galloway ( March 3, 1901 — August 17, 1961 ) was a rancher in San Saba County.

* Most fumbles recovered, game: 4 ; Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns vs. New York Giants, October 25, 1953 ; Sam Etcheverry, St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Giants, September 17, 1961 ; Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers, October 12, 1969 ; Joe Ferguson, Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins, September 18, 1977 ; Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles vs. Oakland Raiders, November 30, 1986 ( OT ).

The record high temperature in San Rafael was on September 7, 1904, and June 14, 1961.

The following high schools were also established: Malvern Preparatory School in Pennsylvania ( 1842 ); St. Rita of Cascia High School in Chicago ( 1909 ); St. Augustine High School in San Diego, California ( 1922 ); Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai, California ( 1925 ); Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa, Oklahoma ( 1926 ); Monsignor Bonner High School in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania ( 1953 ); St. Augustine College Preparatory School in South Jersey ( 1959 ); Austin Preparatory School in Reading, Massachusetts ( 1961 ) and in 1962, Providence Catholic High School, which serves the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois.

In 1957, he moved to Brandeis University in Massachusetts, and in 1961 he joined the University of California, San Diego, where he remained until his retirement in 1978.

From that moment, and until his retirement in 1961, he fought only sporadically, but 3 of his last fights were attempts to recover the world's Middleweight title, losing twice to Gene Fullmer ; by a knockout in 14 at San Francisco ; and by a knockout in 12, in Fullmer's home state of Utah ( in Salt Lake City ), and then also later, when he lost a 10 round decision to defending world champion Paul Pender.

* Symphony No. 8 ' San Francisco ' ( 1961 – 62 ) orchestra with concertante piano

In 1961, W. R. Bullard conducted excavations led by the Royal Ontario Museum ( Rom ), at Baking Pot and San Estevan, and although no excavations took place, the site was initially called “ Rockstone Pond .” In 1963, quarrying activity by local villagers led to a recovery of a large and elaborate carved jade pendant.

McCool was born September 23, 1961, in San Diego, California, and died on February 1, 2003, over the southern United States when Space Shuttle Columbia broke up during entry, 16 minutes prior to scheduled landing.

In 1961 the largest raid on a gay bar in San Francisco resulted in the arrests of 100 people, and the police forced women arrested in another raid in Chicago to disrobe to prove they were not wearing men's underwear, bringing a call in The Ladder to be more active.

On 15 April 1961, at about 06: 00 Cuba local time, eight Douglas B-26B Invader bombers in three groups simultaneously attacked three Cuban airfields at San Antonio de los Baños and at Ciudad Libertad ( formerly named Campo Columbia ), both near Havana, plus the Antonio Maceo International Airport at Santiago de Cuba.

At about 21: 00 on 17 April 1961, a night air strike by three FAL B-26s on San Antonio de Los Baños airfield failed, reportedly due to incompetence and bad weather.

In 1961 Howard Duff, husband of Ida Lupino, assumed the Dante role in a short-lived NBC adventure series Dante, set at a San Francisco nightclub called " Dante's Inferno ".

In 1961, Feinstein worked to end housing discrimination in San Francisco.

While a freshman in college, Folger became a debutante on December 21, 1961 at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, where she made her official debut into San Francisco's high society.

* Archduke Franz Josef of Austria was the brother of Karl Pius and Anton and was Carlist claimant ( Francisco I ) from 1961 to 1975.

Three years later, SFAA launched The California School of Design, which was renamed California School of Fine Arts ( CSFA ) in 1916 and then the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961.

In 1961 the school took its modern name, the San Francisco Art Institute.

Renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961, SFAI refuted the distinction between fine and applied arts.

Other important debuts for Corelli soon followed, including his first appearances at: the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence and the Arena di Verona Festival in 1955 ; the Vienna State Opera, as Radamès, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London, as Cavaradossi, in 1957 ; the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the San Francisco Opera in 1958 ; and the Berlin State Opera in 1961.

The Blue Velvets released three singles in the San Francisco Bay area, during 1961 and 1962, on Oakland's Orchestra Records.

The Blue Velvets released three singles in the San Francisco Bay area, during 1961 and 1962, on Oakland's Orchestra Records.

She was raised in San Francisco and won a " Miss Chinatown " beauty pageant in 1961.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem " The Great Chinese Dragon ", published in his 1961 anthology Starting from San Francisco was inspired by the dragon dance.

Between June 1961 and June 1962 he hosted a New York-based nightly interview program for Westinghouse Broadcasting called PM East for one hour ; it was paired with PM West, 30 minutes, hosted by San Francisco Chronicle television critic Terrence O ' Flaherty.

Robert Charles Nieman ( January 26, 1927 – March 10, 1985 ) was a Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the St. Louis Browns ( 1951 – 52 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1953 – 54 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1956 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1956 – 59 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1960 – 61 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1961 – 62 ) and San Francisco Giants ( 1962 ).

Larsen pitched for the St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles ( 1953 – 1954 ; 1965 ), New York Yankees ( 1955 – 1959 ), Kansas City Athletics ( 1960 – 1961 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1961 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1962 – 1964 ), Houston Colt. 45's / Houston Astros ( 1964 – 1965 ), and Chicago Cubs ( 1967 ).

After the 1961 season, Larsen was traded to the San Francisco Giants with Billy Pierce for Bob Farley, Eddie Fisher and Dom Zanni and a player to be named later ( Verle Tiefenthaler ).

Tour de Farce ( 1961 – 62 ) became perhaps the most widely toured show: performances in Pasadena and San Francisco marked the first time the show had been seen live on both coasts, and then troupe members again went to Europe that summer to perform at US Army bases.

In 1961, Bristol gained national attention when the song " Bristol Stomp ", by The Dovells hit # 2 on the Billboard pop chart.

In 1961, Bristol gained national attention when the song " Bristol Stomp ", by The Dovells hit # 2 on the Billboard pop chart.

* " Bristol Stomp ", a 1961 hit song by the Dovells

The vocal group The Dovells, which featured Len Barry as the lead singer, released " Bristol Stomp ", which reached # 2 in late 1961, followed by " Bristol Twistin ' Annie ," "( Do The New ) Continental ," " Hully Gully Baby " and other dance-related songs in 1962 and 1963.

" Bristol Stomp " is a song written in 1961 by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, two executives with the Cameo-Parkway record label, for The Dovells, an a cappella singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who recorded the song for Cameo-Parkway late that year.

The song was written about teenagers in 1961 who were dancing a new step called " The Stomp " at dances.