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In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]
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.
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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
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radio s urging E-W talks to end war threat
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -- The Soviet Union opened the second series in its current nuclear tests today, detonating two devices over its Arctic proving grounds. The first was in the megaton range and the second in the weaker kiloton range.
final rept of Mayor's Juvenile Delinquency Evaluation Project by Dr MacIver shows nearly 500,000 pupils require special aid; 10-20% have learning difficulties arising from mental or emotional disturbance, 1/3 or more are from poor homes; broad preventive program starting in earliest grades urged; guidance burs overloaded, understaffed; recommendations
co exec Bramblett repts settlements reached at only 26 of 129 plants
US source reveals USSR, in Geneva conf, recently rejected new US proposal presented by Dean to ban underground tests