July 1961 calendar

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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in July 1961.
The US president was John F. Kennedy (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Macmillan (Conservative), Pope John XXIII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on July 1961: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of July 1961?

Events

01 Jul 1961 KNDU TV channel 25 in Richland-Pasco-Kennew, WA (NBC) 1st broadcast
02 Jul 1961 Maris hits 29th and 30th en route to 61 homers
04 Jul 1961 Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Sk?rping in Denmark.
05 Jul 1961 80 die in collisions in Algiers
06 Jul 1961 Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
07 Jul 1961 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
08 Jul 1961 Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies
11 Jul 1961 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
12 Jul 1961 Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams. Half of Pune is submerged, more than 100,000 families need to be relocated and the death tally exceeds 2,000.
13 Jul 1961 Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-US composer (Second Quartet), dies at age 86.
14 Jul 1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
15 Jul 1961 Donnybrook! closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 68 performances
16 Jul 1961 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open
17 Jul 1961 Ford Frick rules that if anyone breaks Babe Ruth 60 HR record, it must be done in 1st 154 games
19 Jul 1961 First in-flight movie shown (TWA).
20 Jul 1961 French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
21 Jul 1961 Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom.
22 Jul 1961 WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting
23 Jul 1961 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
24 Jul 1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
25 Jul 1961 Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
29 Jul 1961 Bob Dylan injured in car accident
30 Jul 1961 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields, Illinois
31 Jul 1961 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston
04 Jul 1961 On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.