10 events found for 1961
Prime Minister Milton Margai led the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate to independence from the United Kingdom
Project Mercury: American astronaut Alan Shepard made a sub-orbital spaceflight on board Freedom 7, becoming the second
Led by Park Chung Hee, the Military Revolution Committee carried out a bloodless coup against the government of Yun Po-s
A fire broke out at a squatter settlement in Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore, rendering approximately 16,000 people homeless
At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, German driver Wolfgang von Trips's car collided with another, causing it to become…
Typhoon Nancy, which possibly had the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, made landfall in Muroto,…
The U.S. National Hurricane Research Project sought to weaken Hurricane Esther by seeding it with silver iodide,…
An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting in the deaths of 16 people, including United Nations…