1961 - Passengers on the Santa Maria, a Portuguese cruiser hijacked by political rebels, are rescued in Brazil.
1961 - A military parade is held in India to honor a visit by Queen Elizabeth II.
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USA - 1961 - In this western, an angry criminal rancher stands down when confronted by a tougher man.
1961 - In his first State of the Union address, JFK discusses the poor state of America's economy.
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1961 - Senator Goldwater taxis in a T-39A and disembarks at the air force flight test center.
USA - 1961 - In this western, a rancher tells a woman he figures she'll ask him to be kind to grizzly bears.
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KOREA - 1961 - A US Army truck convoy transports an Honest John rocket to a missile site in Korea.
1961 - New York City is slammed by an epic blizzard.
1961 - Boston Celtics star Bob Cousy runs a basketball camp for boys in New Hampshire.
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1961 - The Boston Celtics win an NBA title against the St. Louis Hawks, and fans swarm the court.
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1961 - NASA launches the Liberty Bell 7 with Gus Grissom aboard, and he is later recovered but the spacecraft is not.
1961 - LBJ hosts West Germany's Chancellor Adenauer at a huge barbecue in Texas.
1961 - An advertisement for Armed Forces Day includes JFK speaking on the arms race.
1961 - Egyptian President Nasser hosts Yugoslavia's President Tito and India's Prime Minister Nehru at the Neutralist Summit in Cairo.
1961 - In this animated film, Cuba is depicted as a land of thieves after the revolution.
1961 - Families are split up by the construction of the Berlin Wall, and must wave to each other from the East and West.
1961 - Protestors in Cairo, Egypt riot after Patrice Lumumba's death, and crowds cheer for Fidel Castro in Cuba and Moise Tshombe in the Congo.
1936 - FDR arrives for the unveiling of Mount Rushmore, which is not yet completed (narrated in 1961).
1961 - An overweight man watches the Mr. Europe competition, then heads home and flexes in front of the mirror.
1961 - East Germans struggle out of windows and through barbed wire fences to make it to West Berlin.
1936 - Supposedly worthless bonds are peeled from the walls of Chicago's Union League Club to be used as cash during the Great Depression.
1961 - Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower are welcomed to their new Pennsylvania town with a huge ceremony.
1961 - JFK concludes his first State of the Union address by acknowledging that life in 1961 will be hard for Americans but crises must be met and will.
1936 - King Edward VIII abdicates the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, which makes George VI king and Elizabeth II in line for the throne (narrated in 1961).
1961 - Cuban airmen rebelling against Castro bomb Havana.
1936 - Photographs are transmitted over the telephone with a dazzling invention (narrated in 1961).
1961 - Thoroughbred Adios Don wins a chariot race.
1961 - Edward G Robinson, Jimmy Durante, John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra, Walter Pidgeon, and Patricia Kennedy are photographed entering a church for Gary Cooper's funeral.
1961 - Glider pilots are trained in the German Alps.
1936 - Aviatrix Amy Mollison is celebrated upon landing after her record-setting flight from London to Capetown, South Africa (narrated in 1961).
1961 - JFK hosts Republican Governor Rockefeller at the White House to gain bipartisan support in action against Cuba.
USA - 1961 - In this western, bandits stick up a stagecoach and a cavalryman comes to consciousness in time to beat a man for slapping a woman on board.
USA - 1961 - In this western, men cheer for a beautiful woman singing about Deadwood in a saloon.
1936 - Two kinds of small aircrafts, one resembling a flying pancake, are tested in Washington DC (narrated in 1961).
1961 - Grace Kelly, aka Princess Grace of Monaco, arrives in America by plane with her young children Prince Albert III and Princess Caroline IV.
1961 - After Hammarskjold dies, U Thant is sworn in as the new United Nations Secretary General.
1961 - New York City firemen battle fires in the Bronx after a historically bad blizzard.
1936 - Unemployed people in Trenton, New Jersey stage a sit-in at the state house to demand more relief during the Depression (narrated in 1961).
1961 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Detroit Redwings to win the Stanley Cup.
1961 - Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru and cheering crowds in New Delhi, India, where they see the Tower of Qutb Minar.
1961 - South African golfer Gary Player defeats Arnold Palmer, becoming the first non-American to win the Masters Tournament held in Augusta, Georgia.
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1961 - Senator Goldwater talks with General Thomas Power.
1961 - Syracuse University halfback Ernie Davis is awarded the Heisman Trophy.
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1961 - Senator Goldwater disembarks from a C-131 at a Strategic Air Command base, where he and his party are met by General Power.
1961 - Joaquin Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic after Trujillo's tyranny ends.