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Lehman demands Rockefeller pub any data he thinks merit Wagner censure or removal, TV int; doubts SIC has data as charged by DeSapio
H W Baldwin repts Walker may take legal action over certain press refs to his case; revs case, role of Overseas Wkly in making it pub
Min Dantas says Brazil will seek to keep Cuba within inter-Amer system
Anti-Castro demonstration of 4,000 broken up by machine gun fire and rifle butts, Havana; 7 hurt; clash resulted from gathering at Ch of Charity to hold banned religious procession
Premier Khrushchev dedicates Stalin Hydroelec Station on Volga River
1961Virginia Madsen, American actress[†]
Virginia Madsen is an American actress. She is the recipient of two Critics' Choice Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
1961Samina Raja, Pakistani poet and educator (died 2012)[†]
Samina Raja was a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, editor, translator, educationist and broadcaster. She lived in Islamabad, Pakistan, and worked in the National Language Authority and National Book Foundation as a subject specialist.
1961Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.[†]
Hurricane Carla was the most intense tropical cyclone landfall in Texas in the 20th century. The third named storm of the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, Carla developed from an area of squally weather in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on September 3. As a tropical depression, it strengthened while heading northwest. The system was upgraded to a tropical storm on September 5 and reached hurricane intensity on September 6. On September 7, Carla entered the Gulf of Mexico, passing northeast of the Yucatán Peninsula. On the morning of September 11, Carla became a category 4 hurricane when winds reached 130 mph. Carla made landfall at 2 p.m. on September 11 near Port O'Connor, Texas as a category 4 hurricane with a peak intensity of 145 mph. Traveling inland, the storm was reduced to a tropical storm on September 12 and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on September 13, while centered over southern Oklahoma. Carla's remnants reached the Labrador Sea, Canada and dissipated on September 17, 1961.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]