Events 401 - 600 of 608
- Sep 1 US 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of George Harrison, Dick Blick, Mike Troy & Jeff Farrell swim world record 8:10.2 to beat Japan by 3.3 seconds and win gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- Sep 2 American Mike Troy swims 200m butterfly world record 2:12.8 to win the gold medal from Australian Neville Hayes at the Rome Olympics
Olympic Gold
Sep 2 American sprinter Wilma Rudolph wins the coveted 100m gold medal at the Rome Olympics in 11.0; beats Britain's Dorothy Hyman by 0.3; 1st of 3 gold medals for Rudolph
- Sep 2 New Zealand middle distance runner Peter Snell claims first of 3 career Olympic gold medals when he wins the 800m in Rome
- Sep 2 Tamara & Irina Press (Soviet Union) become first sisters to win Olympic gold medals; Tamara wins Rome Olympics shot put one day after Irina takes out 80m hurdles
- Sep 2 The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
- Sep 2 William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres
- Sep 3 Livio Berruti of Italy runs a world record 20.5 to win the gold medal in the 200m at the Rome Olympics
- Sep 3 US women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Joan Spillane, Shirley Stobs, Carolyn Wood & Chris von Saltza swim world record 4:08.9 to beat Australia by 2.4 seconds and win gold medal at Rome Olympics
- Sep 4 -12] Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in the Caribbean & US
Sports History
Sep 5 A. J. Foyt wins the first of 67 Indy car victories at Du Quoin, Illinois. State Fairgrounds
Olympic Gold
Sep 5 Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali] beats 3-time European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland by unanimous points decision to win Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the Rome Games
Olympic Gold
Sep 5 Future world middleweight boxing champion Nino Benvenuti of Italy beats Yuri Radonyak of the Soviet Union to win welterweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics
Election of Interest
Sep 5 Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the 1st President of Senegal
Event of Interest
Sep 5 President of Congo Joseph Kasa-Vubu fires Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba
- Sep 6 American Otis Davis runs a world record 44.9 to win the gold medal in the 400m at the Rome Olympics; German Carl Kaufmann records same time but ruled second via photo finish
- Sep 6 Australian middle distance runner Herb Elliott breaks his own world record in winning the 1,500m at the Rome Olympics in 3:35.6
- Sep 6 In a famous victory American decathlete Rafer Johnson scores Olympic record 8,392 points to win the gold medal in Rome; beats rival & friend C.K. Yang of China by 58 points
- Sep 7 American weightlifter Charles Vinci wins 2nd consecutive bantamweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics with world-record equalling 3-lift (snatch, clean & jerk, overhead press) total of 345.0 kilograms
- Sep 7 Danish yachtsman Paul Elvstrøm wins the Finn class at the Rome Olympics; his 4th straight Olympic gold medal in the category
- Sep 7 Future Constantine II, last King of Greece, wins Dragon class sailing gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- Sep 7 Japan wins the men's gymnastics teams combined exercises gold for the first of 5 consecutive Olympics at the Rome Games; beats Soviet Union by just 2.5 points
- Sep 7 Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
- Sep 8 American sprinter Wilma Rudolph wins her third gold medal of the Rome Olympics anchoring the US 4 x 100m relay team; earlier won 100/200m double
- Sep 8 German 4 x 100m relay team equal world record 39.5 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf & Martin Lauer
- Sep 8 German Democratic Republic limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners
Psycho
Sep 8 Nationwide release (US) of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
- Sep 8 US 4 x 400m relay team of Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis & Otis Davis run a world record 3:02.2 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- Sep 9 Denver Broncos beat Boston Patriots, 13-10 in the American Football League's first game before 21,597 fans at Nickerson Field in Boston
- Sep 9 Pakistan ends India's run of 6 consecutive Olympic field hockey gold medals with a 1-0 win over their sub-continent rivals at the Rome Games
Olympic Gold
Sep 10 Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia runs WR 2:15:16.2 barefoot to take out the men's marathon at the Rome Olympics; Africa's first ever Olympic gold medal
- Sep 10 Fencer Aladár Gerevich is part of the gold medal winning Hungarian sabre team at the Rome Olympics; Gerevich's 6th consecutive gold medal in the event
Olympic Gold
Sep 10 Future Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas scores 23 points as the US wins its 5th straight men's basketball Olympic gold medal with a 90-63 drubbing of Brazil at the Rome Games
Olympic Gold
Sep 10 Gymnastics competition at the Rome Olympics concludes with the Soviet Union taking 10 of the 15 gold medals; Soviet gymnasts Boris Shakhlin & Larisa Latynina win 3 gold medals each
Sports History
Sep 10 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit
- Sep 10 Yugoslavia dominates Denmark 3-1 to win the men's football gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- Sep 11 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy
- Sep 11 The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr., promulgate the Sharon Statement
Event of Interest
Sep 12 John F. Kennedy states he does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does the Church speak for him.
- Sep 13 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
Music History
Sep 14 Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of Communist Party of USSR
- Sep 14 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Event of Interest
Sep 14 Joseph-Desiré Mobutu launches a bloodless coup d'état in the Congo, declaring President Joseph Kasa-Vubu and Patrice Lumumba to be "neutralised" and establishing a new government of university graduates
- Sep 14 KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
Maurice Richard Retires
Sep 15 Maurice Richard announces his retirement. He finishes his career with 544 goals, an NHL record at the time.
- Sep 16 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
- Sep 16 Milwaukee Braves' future HOF pitcher Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0 at County Stadium
- Sep 17 Cuba nationalizes US banks
Event of Interest
Sep 19 "LIFE" magazine celebrates artist Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses' 100th birthday by putting her on their cover
The Twist Dance Craze
Sep 19 Chubby Checker's "The Twist" hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
- Sep 20 UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations)
- Sep 20 WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 22 Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France
- Sep 24 International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
- Sep 24 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched
- Sep 25 For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant
- Sep 25 NY Yankees clinch AL pennant
- Sep 25 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses
- Sep 26 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
Castro's Four Hour Speech
Sep 26 Cuban leader Fidel Castro delivers a 4 hour and 29 minute long speech at the United Nations
- Sep 27 Europe's 1st "moving pavement" (travelator), opens at Bank station on the London Underground
- Sep 28 "Millionaire" last airs on CBS-TV
- Sep 28 "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" by Connie Francis hits #1
- Sep 28 "Queen For A Day" moves to ABC-TV
- Sep 28 "Sunrise at Campobello" premieres at Palace theater
Baseball Record
Sep 28 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 (off Jack Fisher)
- Sep 29 "Johnny Ringo" TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV
- Sep 29 "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV
- Sep 29 "Outlaws" TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV
- Sep 29 "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK
The Flintstones
Sep 30 "The Flintstones" the first animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera premieres on ABC in the US
- Sep 30 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
- Sep 30 West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany
- Oct 1 KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Oct 1 Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom (National Day) and becomes the 99th member of the United Nations
A Dance of the Forests
Oct 1 Wole Soyinka's play "A Dance of the Forests" is first performed as part of Nigerian Independence celebrations
Golf Tournament
Oct 2 Mickey Wright becomes first player in LPGA Tour history to average fewer than 74 strokes per round to win the Vare Trophy after a season average of 73.25; first of 5 consecutive Vare Trophies for Wright
Flair Premieres
Oct 3 "Flair!", a daily radio program premieres on ABC radio network with Dick Van Dyke as host
- Oct 3 Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil
- Oct 3 New York Yankees beat rival Boston Red Sox, 8-7 at Yankee Stadium, ending season on 15 game winning streak & MLB record 193 HRs
- Oct 3 San Francisco's White House department store is the 1st to accept BankAmericard
- Oct 3 US sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show" premieres in CBS (runs till 1968)
- Oct 4 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
- Oct 5 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
- Oct 5 Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
- Oct 5 KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
Spartacus
Oct 6 "Spartacus", directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, premieres in NYC
- Oct 7 JFK and Richard Nixon's second presidential debate
- Oct 7 TV series "Route 66" premieres on CBS
- Oct 9 Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
- Oct 10 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
- Oct 10 Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
- Oct 10 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
- Oct 10 WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Oct 11 Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
- Oct 11 Radio/TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers
- Oct 12 Japanese politician Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated with a sword during a televised debate live on TV by 17-year old nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi
- Oct 12 JFK and Richard Nixon's third presidential debate
United Nations Speech
Oct 12 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session
- Oct 13 Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba
- Oct 13 Third presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY
- Oct 14 Belgian senator Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
- Oct 14 Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy in a speech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
- Oct 16 NL votes to admit Houston & NY to league
- Oct 17 US & Britain sign an accord granting US access to the British nuclear submarine base in Holy Loch, Scotland
Sports History
Oct 18 Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)
- Oct 18 In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge and London Evening Star merges with Evening News
- Oct 19 France grants Mauritania independence
- Oct 19 KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
Event of Interest
Oct 19 Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in
- Oct 19 US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba
- Oct 20 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, Rhode Island
- Oct 20 Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
- Oct 21 1st British nuclear sub HMS Dreadnought launched
- Oct 21 JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
- Oct 24 Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome: Prototype missile explodes on launch pad, killing Chief Marshal of Artillery Mitrofan Nedelin and over 100 personnel killed; USSR claims victims died in plane crash, suppressing true details until 1989
- Oct 25 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
- Oct 25 Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
- Oct 26 MLB: American League approves existing Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins, and two new expansion franchises - Los Angeles Angels & Washington (D.C.) Senators; 1961 season schedule grows from 154 to 162 games
- Oct 27 AL admits LA & Washington to the league
- Oct 27 American pop and soul singer Ben E. King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me" in NYC
- Oct 29 Cassius Clay's [Muhammad Ali] 1st professional fight; beats Tunney Hunsaker on points in 6 rounds in Louisville, Kentucky
- Oct 29 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
- Oct 30 Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
- Oct 30 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
- Oct 31 Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die
- Nov 1 Benelux treaty goes into effect
- Nov 2 Dmitri Shostakovich's 8th String quartet premieres in Leningrad
Sports History
Nov 2 New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris beats teammate Mickey Mantle for American League MVP Award, 225-222; second-closest vote ever
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Nov 2 Penguin Books cleared of obscenity for publishing DH Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
- Nov 3 Ivory Coast adopts constitution
- Nov 3 Pittsburgh Pirates starter Vern Law (20-9, 18 complete games) wins MLB's Cy Young Award
Historic Discovery
Nov 4 Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey discover first Homo habilis jaw fragments (OH 7) at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
- Nov 7 KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcasting
- Nov 8 John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon who was the incumbent Vice President
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Nov 10 Uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" finally goes on sale in the UK after a jury finds publisher Penguin Books not guilty in an obscenity trial
Vietnam Coup Fails
Nov 12 Military coup against Republic of Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm fails
Judge With a Passion For Civil Rights
Nov 14 New Orleans elementary schools begin desegregation under an order from U.S. Circuit Judge J. Skelly Wright, the McDonogh Three join McDonogh 19 Elementary School and Ruby Bridges joins William Frantz Elementary School. They are met with death threats and racial slurs while the schools faced immediate boycotts.
Georgia On My Mind
Nov 14 Ray Charles' single "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1
Elgin Baylor
Nov 15 Elgin Baylor of NBA LA Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks
- Nov 15 USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
- Nov 16 NL batting champion Dick Groat of the Pittsburgh Pirateds wins MVP
- Nov 16 U.S. marshals escort four six-year-old African-American girls to previously all-white public schools in New Orleans, in response to death threats against the girls and race riots
- Nov 17 New MLB Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
- Nov 18 Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
- Nov 18 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
- Nov 19 Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
- Nov 20 Australian driver Jack Brabham finishes 4th in season-ending US Grand Prix at Riverside Raceway to retain his F1 World Drivers Championship by 9 points from Bruce McLaren of New Zealand
- Nov 21 Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down
- Nov 22 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
- Nov 23 Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 23 Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St
- Nov 23 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
Chamberlain's Record Rebounds
Nov 24 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain pulls down NBA record 55 rebounds in Warriors 132-129 defeat to Boston Celtics at Philadelphia Civic Center
- Nov 25 "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio
- Nov 25 CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs Burton) & cancels 4 other series
- Nov 25 First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland, Wa
Mirabal Sisters
Nov 25 Three of the four Mirabal sisters, opponents of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, are assassinated
Houphouët-Boigny Elected
Nov 27 Félix Houphouët-Boigny elected unopposed as the 1st President of Ivory Coast (rules until 1993)
Howe 1st to Score 1,000 Points
Nov 27 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
Lumumba Flees Congo
Nov 27 Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville, Congo
- Nov 27 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
- Nov 28 CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
- Nov 28 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
- Nov 29 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)
- Nov 30 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
- Nov 30 Tad Mosels "All the Way Home" premieres in NYC
Beatles, Arrested and Deported
Dec 1 British rocker Paul McCartney and drummer Pete Best arrested and then deported from Hamburg, Germany accused of attempted arson
- Dec 1 Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba is caught in Lodi, Congo, by troops of recent coup leader Joseph-Désiré Mobutu
Louis Leakey
Dec 2 Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovers 1.4 million year old Homo erectus (Olduvai Hominid 9) in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
- Dec 5 Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium
- Dec 6 MLB American League grants American entertainer and businessman Gene Autry a franchise: Los Angeles Angels
- Dec 7 Ivory Coast claims independence from France
- Dec 8 MLB expansion team Los Angeles Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
Peter Pan
Dec 8 Musical "Peter Pan", starring Mary Martin broadcast, for a 3rd time, on NBC as a special event, videotaped in color for future rebroadcasts
Nobel for Carbon-14 Dating
Dec 10 Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating).
- Dec 11 Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers; pro-independence demonstrations turn violent, 114 die
- Dec 11 Cleveland Brown's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
Wildcat
Dec 11 Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in New York City
Ballon d'Or
Dec 13 Ballon d'Or: Barcelona midfielder Luis Suárez is named best football player in Europe ahead of Real Madrid's Hungarian forward Ferenc Puskás and Hamburg striker Uwe Seeler
- Dec 13 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
- Dec 14 Australia v West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie
- Dec 14 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
- Dec 14 Washington Senators joins American League
- Dec 16 TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
- Dec 17 Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio" premieres
- Dec 18 General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid
- Dec 19 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)
"Ring-A-Ding-Ding"
Dec 19 Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records ("Ring-A-Ding-Ding")
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists