Historical Events for July 1961
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Months in 1961: January February March April May June August September October November December
Results 1 - 45 of 45
1st - 16th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1st - Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii
1st - KNDU TV channel 25 in Richland-Pasco-Kennew, WA (NBC) 1st broadcast
2nd - Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers
4th - Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skørping in Denmark
5th - 80 die in collisions in Algiers
5th - KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
5th - St Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 HRs & a double
6th - Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
7th - 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
7th - James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
8th - Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies
8th - Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die
11th - 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF
11th - Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
14th - Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
14th - Finland's Miettunen govt forms
14th - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
15th - "Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 68 performances
15th - 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale
15th - Spain accept equal rights for men & women
16th - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open
16th - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2"
17th - John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show
17th - Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th
17th - Ford Frick rules that if anyone breaks Babe Ruth 60 HR record, it must be done in 1st 154 games
18th - Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games
19th - 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
20th - French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
21st - Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
22nd - WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting
23rd - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
23rd - Bricusse & Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ...," premieres
24th - Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
24th - Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
24th - Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
25th - Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader
25th - In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
29th - Bob Dylan injured in car accident
29th - Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
29th - Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
30th - 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL
30th - Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
31st - 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston
31st - Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
