September 1961 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1961 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
• 04 Sep 1961 Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio
• 05 Sep 1961 JFK begins underground nuclear testing
• 06 Sep 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
• 07 Sep 1961 Tom and Jerry make a return with their first episode since 1957, Switchin' Kitten. The new creator, Gene Deitch makes 12 more Tom and Jerry episodes until 1962.
• 09 Sep 1961 Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962
• 10 Sep 1961 75th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones
• 11 Sep 1961 Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
• 12 Sep 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
• 13 Sep 1961 Car 54 Where are You? premieres on TV
• 14 Sep 1961 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of the USSR
• 15 Sep 1961 61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
• 16 Sep 1961 CDU loses West German election
• 17 Sep 1961 The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh.
• 18 Sep 1961 U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 19 Sep 1961 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
• 20 Sep 1961 After 84 1 / 3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
• 21 Sep 1961 Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel round trip
• 22 Sep 1961 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at age 42, completes the first round trip crossing swim of the English Channel in 43 hours, 10 minutes.
• 23 Sep 1961 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire
• 24 Sep 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open
• 25 Sep 1961 KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 26 Sep 1961 From the Second City opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances
• 27 Sep 1961 Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269
• 28 Sep 1961 Doctor Kildare, debuts on NBC-TV
• 29 Sep 1961 Detectives, TV Crime Drama
• 30 Sep 1961 Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost

Famous Birthday

• Mylène Farmer

  Canadian-French singer-songwriter producer and actress.

• Heather Locklear

  American perky, sexy, blonde TV actress who made it big.

• James Gandolfini

  American actor.

• Dave Mustaine

  American musician, formerly lead guitarist of the hard metal band Metallica and subsequently with the group Megadeth.

• Bernard Werber

  French science fiction writer, mostly recognized for having written the trilogy "Les Fourmis".

• Julia Gillard

  Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia.

• Virginia Madsen

  Movie Actress.

• Pierre Cosso
• Andy Lau

  Hong Kong actor and singer.

• Catherine Oxenberg

  American actress and noted family, the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia and clothing tycoon Howard Oxenberg.

• Scott Travis

  American drummer (Judas Priest Racer X and Animetal USA).

• Bonnie Hunt

  American actress.

• Scott Baio
• Eric Stoltz

  American actor director and producer.

• Cédric Klapisch
• Luc Picard (actor)
• Chi McBride

  American actor and singer.

• Jules Lepennetier
• Paul Waaktaar-Savoy

  Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (A-ha and Savoy).

• Bernard Casoni
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Famous Deaths

• Wolfgang von Trips

  German race car driver (d. 1961).

• William S Foster

  Chairman (US Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80.

• Greet Koeman

  Dutch singer, dies at 54.

• Pieter S Gerbrandy

  Lawyer / Premier to London 1940-5, dies at 76.

• Yme C Schuitmaker

  Potato farmer / dramatist.

• Simon Delmonte

  Actor / director (Bleke Bet), dies at 68.

• Helen Kimble

  Fictional Wife of Dr Richard Kimble (Fugitive).

• Pieter Tesch

  Mine engineer / geology (Pedestal of the Netherlands).

• Elmer R Diktonius

  Finnish musicologist / Author (Stenkol), dies at 65.

• Eily Malyon

  Actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch), dies at 81.

• Michael Shepley

  Actor (Dick & the Duchess), dies at 54.

• Reinhard Herbig

  German archaeologist, dies at 63.

• Billy House

  Actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I), dies at 71.

• Adnan Menderes

  Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-60), dies at age 62.

• Earle Dickson

  inventor (band-aid), dies at age 68.

• Robert E Gross

  American businessman (Born 1897).

• Onesime Gagnon

  French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (Born 1888).

• Hilda Doolittle

  American writer of novels and poetry, known as HD, a nickname given to her by poet Ezra Pound, with whom she was romantically linked.

• Dag Hammarskjold

  Swedish economist and statesman, the Secretary General of the U.N.

• Carl Hermann

  German physicist and academic (d. 1961).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Joe Dowell - Wooden Heart
2. The Highwaymen - Michael
3. Bobby Vee - Take Good Care Of My Baby
4. Bobby Lewis - Tossin' And Turnin'
5. Dick and DeeDee - The Mountain's High

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me
2. Helen Shapiro - Walking Back To Happiness
3. Shirley Bassey - Reach For The Stars / Climb Ev'ry Mountain
4. The Highwaymen - Michael
5. Helen Shapiro - You Don't Know