July 1961 calendar

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 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

Famous Birthday

• Diana Princess of Wales
• Martin Gore

  English singer-songwriter guitarist and producer (Depeche Mode and VCMG).

• Samy Naceri

  French actor.

• Woody Harrelson

  TV Actor.

• Katherine Kelly Lang
• Kalpana Chawla

  Indian astronaut, Kalpana Chawla, Ph.

• Laurence Fishburne

  American actor.

• Forest Whitaker

  American award-winning actor who won an Oscar for best actor on February 26, 2007 for his portrayal of Idi Amin in "The Last King of...

• Andy Fletcher (musician)
• Carl Lewis

  American track and field athlete.

• Valérie Benguigui
• Elizabeth McGovern

  American actress.

• Campbell Scott

  American actor.

• René Jacquot
• Caroline Quentin
• Jean-Pierre Améris
• Paul Duchesnay

  French noted skater and Olympian who performed with his sister, Isabelle, as an ice dancer in the winter Olympics in Albertville, 2/17/1992,...

• Lolita Davidovich

  Canadian actress.

• Jean-Christophe Grangé

  French mystery writer, journalist, and screenwriter.

• Lisa Lampanelli

  American comedian actress and author.

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Famous Deaths

• Franklyn Farnum

  Dies of cancer at 83.

• Cuno Amiet

  Swiss painter, dies at 93.

• Enrique Larreta [E Rodriguez Maza]

  Argentine diplomat / writer.

• Julian Bautista

  Composer, dies at 60.

• [Louise] Sophie M E de Vries

  Actress (English Prof), dies at 88.

• Theodore Chanler

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Esther Dale

  Actress (Birdie-Ma & Pa Kettle), dies after surgery at 75.

• John E Brownlee

  Canadian politician (Born 1884).

• Konstantinos Logothetopoulos

  Greek medical doctor and politician, the 2nd Prime Minister of the collaborationist Hellenic State (Born 1878).

• Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  French physician and writer, a novelist.

• Ty Cobb

  American Major League Baseball player, an outfielder nicknamed "The Georgia Peach.

• Alan Marshal

  Actor (Lydia, Irene, Exile Express), dies at 52.

• Mazo de la Roche

  Canadian author and playwright (d. 1961).

• Scott LaFaro

  American jazz bassist (Bill Evans Trio) (Born 1936).

• Kit Guard

  Dies of cancer at 67.

• Ernest Hemingway

  American writer, novelist and adventurer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for "The Old Man and the Sea" and in 1954, the Nobel...

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Gary U.S. Bonds - Quarter To Three
2. Bobby Lewis - Tossin' And Turnin'
3. Dee Clark - Raindrops
4. Brook Benton - The Boll Weevil Song
5. Pat Boone - Moody River

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Del Shannon - Runaway
2. The Everly Brothers - Temptation
3. Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou / Travelin' Man
4. Eden Kane - Well I Ask You
5. Billy Fury - Halfway To Paradise