1961

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Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 - 1961 - 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966

Births

February 11 - [Mary Docter]?, American speed skater.
February 11 - [Becky LeBeau]?, vocalist.
February 11 - [Carey Lowell]?, actress.
July 1 - Diana, English princess
September 2 - Carlos Valderrama, footballer

Deaths

February 11 - [Eduard R Verkade]?, Dutch actor/director.
February 11 - [Patrice Lumumba]?, 1st premier of [Congo (Kinshasa)]??.
June 1 - Melvin Jones, founder of Lions Clubs International.
October 11 - [Chico Marx]?, member of the Marx Brothers

Events

February 11 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
August 13 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins. Movement between East Berlin and West Berlin remains restricted for the next 28 years, until November 9, 1989.
Change of US presidency from Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) to John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
JFK begins the Apollo program of U.S. manned spaceflight
The first quasar is discovered by [Allen Rex Sandage]? at [Mt Palomar]?, California.
Baseball player [Roger Maris]? hits 61 home runs in a season, beating Babe Ruth's mark of 60, that had stood since 1927
South Africa withdraws from the British Commonwealth.

Nobel Prizes

Physics - [Robert Hofstadter]?, [[Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer]]
Chemistry - [Melvin Calvin]?
Medicine - [Georg von Békésy]?
Literature - [Ivo Andric]?
Peace - [Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld]? - awarded posthumously