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February 3, 1961

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Mayor Asks State to Allow City To Plan Its Own Charter Change; Mayor Asks State to Allow City To Plan Its Own Charter Change

By Paul Crowell

Wagner asks Rockefeller to help get Legis authority to set up 9-member revision comm of NYC residents named by Mayor; holds such comm could draft Charter better suited to NYC needs than NYS-apptd comm; restates praise of most of Moore comm proposals; Controller Gerosa holds no revision needed, s, Bronx; scores Wagner for seeking it, '58

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Notable Births

Linda Eder

1961Linda Eder, American singer and actress[†]

Linda Eder is an American singer and actress. She originated the role of Lucy Harris in the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde, for which she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award.

Notable Deaths

William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil

1961William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Scottish-Australian captain and politician, 14th Governor-General of Australia (born 1893)[†]

William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil,, was a British politician. He was a long-serving cabinet minister before serving as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1951 to 1959. He was then appointed as the 14th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1960 until his death in 1961.

Anna May Wong

1961Anna May Wong, American actress (born 1905)[†]

Wong Liu Tsong, known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. Her varied career spanned silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio.

Historical Events

United States Air Force

1961The United States Air Force begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.[†]

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its origins to 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established by transfer of personnel from the Army Air Forces with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947. It is the second youngest branch of the United States Armed Forces and the fourth in order of precedence. The United States Air Force articulates its core missions as air supremacy, global integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, rapid global mobility, global strike, and command and control.

Historical Context for February 3, 1961

In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]