Historical Events in November 1961

September 26, 2024

November1961 Calendar

Nov 2 Max Frisch's play "Andorra" premieres in Zürich
Nov 2 Robert Wright and George Forrest's musical "Kean" opens at Broadway Theater, NYC; runs for 92 performances

Election of Interest

Nov 3 UN General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant as acting Secretary-General after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash

Nov 4 American folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan makes his Carnegie Hall (NYC) debut; tickets priced at $2.00 [1]

Nov 5 NFL St Louis Cardinals' Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas Cowboys
Nov 6 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith (invented game of basketball - actually Canadian)
Nov 7 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
Nov 8 Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft, crashes near Richmond, Virginia, 77 die

Nov 9 The Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein after a lunch time performance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England

Nov 9 The X-15 rocket plane under USAF Major Robert M White achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude
Nov 11 "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller is published by Simon and Schuster in New York
Nov 11 Adulterous couple ride a dung cart through Staphorst, Netherlands
Nov 11 City of Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
Nov 11 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots

Nov 11 Stalinists Anti-Party Group Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovitsj expelled from USSR's communist party for opposing liberalization

Nov 13 Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
Nov 13 WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
Nov 15 Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth

Nov 16 US President JFK decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops

Nov 19 Houston Oilers quarterback George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns in a 49-13 rout of NY Titans at Jeppesen Stadium, Houston

Nov 20 WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
Nov 21 "La Ronde", 1st revolving restaurant in US, opens atop the 23-floor Ala Moana Tower in Honolulu, Hawaii; designed by architect John Graham, Jr.

Nov 22 Producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star

Nov 22 St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws

Nov 26 For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
Nov 26 Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball

Nov 28 German writer Martin Walser's play "Der Abstecher" (The Detour) premieres in Munich

Nov 29 Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns and is replaced by John McCone

Nov 29 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
Nov 29 John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA
Nov 29 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
Nov 30 Billy Williams of the Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year
Nov 30 U Thant of Burma becomes the 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations
Nov 30 USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership

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