58 events found for 1961
Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20 million US gallons (76,000 m3) of…
The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra…
Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants'…
Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that…
TWA Flight 529 crashed shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport in Chicago, killing all 78 people on board. At the…
In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators…
A President Airlines Douglas DC-6 crashes just after takeoff from Shannon Airport, Ireland. All 83 passengers and crew…
Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
Air France Flight 2005 crashes near Rabat–Salé Airport, in Rabat, Morocco, killing 77 people.
The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of…
Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan,…
Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 crashes during takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois,…
United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the…
Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.