November 1961 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1961 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
• 02 Nov 1961 Kean opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances
• 03 Nov 1961 General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general
• 04 Nov 1961 Karamanlis becomes Premier of Greece
• 06 Nov 1961 The U.S. government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith.
• 08 Nov 1961 Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
• 09 Nov 1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m
• 10 Nov 1961 ''Catch-22'' is first published by Joseph Heller.
• 11 Nov 1961 Adulterous couple up mestkar through Staphorst riding
• 13 Nov 1961 WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 15 Nov 1961 Comet C / 1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
• 16 Nov 1961 Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
• 17 Nov 1961 Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.
• 18 Nov 1961 Gay Life opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances
• 20 Nov 1961 WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 22 Nov 1961 Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues
• 24 Nov 1961 World Food Program (WFP) formed as a temporary UN program.
• 26 Nov 1961 Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
• 27 Nov 1961 KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 28 Nov 1961 Ernest Davis is 1st black to win Heisman Trophy
• 29 Nov 1961 John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th Director of CIA
• 30 Nov 1961 Billy Williams of the Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year

Famous Birthday

• Florent Pagny

  French pop singer, he began his career as an actor (TV series and popular films).

• Meg Ryan

  America's beloved perky and cute screen actress.

• Nagui

  Egyptian-born French TV and radio personality of Egyptian and Italian descent.

• Nadia Comaneci

  Romanian gymnast and winner of five Olympic gold medals in Montreal in 1976.

• KD Lang

  Canadian singer and songwriter, accomplishing the music-crossover from traditional country to pop market and achieving a Grammy award for...

• Ralph Macchio

  American actor.

• Mariel Hemingway

  American noted family, actress and writer, she is the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway and sister of Margaux Hemingway.

• Eric Donfu
• Lucas Belvaux
• Pierre Hermé

  French pastry chef most famous for his macarons, many of which have unusual flavor combinations.

• Marcy Walker

  American actress, most visible in the role of Liza Colby Chandler in the TV soap series, "All My Children," 1981-84.

• Leif Garrett

  American actor and singer.

• Arundhati Roy

  Indian author and activist.

• Luca Zingaretti
• Tom Sizemore

  American actor and producer.

• Alfonso Cuarón

  Mexican director producer and screenwriter.

• DB Sweeney
• Frank Bruno

  British boxer (European champ).

• Sébastien Bazin

  French businessman.

• David Armstrong-Jones

  British royalty, the son of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Armstrong-Jones.

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Famous Deaths

• Alexander Cohen

  Dutch anarchist / author, dies at 97.

• Antonius F "Anton" Coolen

  Author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64.

• Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr

  Dutch actor (Unknown Woman), dies at 63.

• Wally Brown

  Actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57.

• Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Stanislaw Kazuro

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Douglas Walton

  Actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51.

• Joan McCracken

  Actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at 38.

• Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle

  Jr.

• Hubert Van Innis

  Belgian archer (Born 1866).

• Sam Rayburn

  American U.S.

• James Thurber

  American state clerk, journalist, writer, artist and illustrator of stories, fables and essays with caricatures.

• Elsie Ferguson

  Actress (Lie, Footlights, Scarlet Pages), dies at 76.

• Ruth Chatterton

  American actress, a writer and a pilot.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Dion - Runaround Sue
2. Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John
3. The Dovells - Bristol Stomp
4. Brenda Lee - Fool #1
5. The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Elvis Presley - His Latest Flame / Little Sisters
2. Frankie Vaughan - Tower Of Strength
3. Helen Shapiro - Walking Back To Happiness
4. Danny Williams - Moon River
5. Cliff Richard - When The Girl In Your Arms Is The Girl In Your Heart