✦ History

Explore June 11, 1961

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

David Malpass age 5
David Blunkett age 14
Amin al-Hafiz age 39
Dragiša Cvetković age 68
J. Lawton Collins age 65
John W. Snow age 21
John Healey age 1
Walid Jumblatt age 11
Li Yuanchao age 10
Josef Harpe age 73
Issa Pliyev age 57
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 25
Markian Popov age 58
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 53
Princess Ileana of Romania age 52
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 49
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 22
Jim Gilmore age 11
Bob McDonnell age 6
Terry McAuliffe age 4
Mike Braun age 7
Bill Lee age 1
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 42
Elliot Richardson age 40
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 15
Lester Bird age 23
Ramón Puerta age 9
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 77
Bill Hayden age 28
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 21
Georges Theunis age 88
Paul van Zeeland age 67
Colville Young age 28
Stefan Janev age 1
Goukouni Oueddei age 19
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 69
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 34
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 14
Osvaldo Hurtado age 21
Galo Plaza age 55
Joseph Urusemal age 9
Teuvo Aura age 48
Keijo Liinamaa age 32
Sakari Tuomioja age 49
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 66
Ioannis Grivas age 38
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 33
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 30
Vinicio Cerezo age 18
Desmond Hoyte age 32
Henri Namphy age 28
Claudette Werleigh age 14
Tiburcio Carías age 85
Péter Boross age 32
Károly Grósz age 30
Geir Hallgrímsson age 35
Erik Scavenius age 83
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 8
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 47
Salim al-Huss age 31
Moses Blah age 14
Anton Buttigieg age 49
Litokwa Tomeing age 21
Khil Raj Regmi age 12
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 1
Cuthbert Sebastian age 39
Mahammed Dionne age 1
Zoran Živković age 5 months
Flavio Cotti age 21
H. H. Kung age 79
Chen Chien-jen age 10
Sanya Dharmasakti age 54
Kriangsak Chamanan age 43
Chatchai Chunhawan age 41
Arthur Foulkes age 33
Marguerite Pindling age 28
Eric Williams age 49
Ahmed Hachani age 4
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 38
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 54
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 59
Julius Chan age 21
Kim Boo-kyum age 3
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 45
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 5
Diego Martínez Barrio age 77
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 5
Edem Kodjo age 23
Miles Dempsey age 64
Masayoshi Ito age 47
Jim Fouché age 63
Nicolaas Diederichs age 57
James Wolfensohn age 27
Eric Shinseki age 18
Frank Carlucci age 30
Les Aspin age 22
Michael Mullen age 14
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 50
Takeo Kurita age 72
Hal Moore age 39
Mario Roatta age 74
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 65
Princess Deokhye age 49
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 47
Kim Kyong-hui age 15
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 77
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 53
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 7
Timothy Laurence age 11
Zell Miller age 29
Miriam A. Ferguson age 86
Pete Wilson age 27
Mitja Ribičič age 42
Abeid Karume age 55
Lien Chan age 24
William H. Webster age 37
Rabah Bitat age 35
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 34
William Deane age 30
Clifford Husbands age 34
Jeffrey Bostic age 7 months
Reneta Indzhova age 7
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 12
Nikica Valentić age 10
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 50
Hipólito Mejía age 20
Atef Ebeid age 29
Jacob Nena age 19
Reino Kuuskoski age 54
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 63
Raymond Ndong Sima age 6
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 58
Ramiro de León Carpio age 19
Jorge Serrano Elías age 16
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 37
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 14
Gyula Kállai age 51
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 36
Hermann Jónasson age 64
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 50
Alexander Bustamante age 77
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 11
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 12
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 4
Djoomart Otorbaev age 5
Rashid Karami age 39
Sam Matekane age 3
Zigmantas Balčytis age 7
Richard Ratsimandrava age 30
Modibo Sidibé age 8
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 8
Abdellatif Filali age 33
René Harris age 13
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 21
Jerry Mateparae age 6
Jens Hundseid age 78
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 75
Mohammad Mustafa age 6
Clément Mouamba age 17
Ilie Verdeț age 36
David Vunagi age 10
Cho Jung-tai age 2
Pote Sarasin age 56
Prawit Wongsuwon age 15
Lynden Pindling age 31
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 23
Feleti Sevele age 16
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 9
Ali Laarayedh age 5
Mohamed Mzali age 35
Ruhakana Rugunda age 13
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 28
Eleazar López Contreras age 78
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 22
Choi Sang-mok age 1
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 45
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 27
José Giral age 81
Alan Johnson age 11
John J. Sullivan age 1
Robert Rubin age 22
Bayard Rustin age 49
Lucius D. Clay age 64
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi age 2
Arthur Percival age 73
Mostafa Chamran age 28
Otto Ruge age 79
Eberhard von Mackensen age 71
Alphonse Juin age 72
Zhang Wentian age 60
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 64
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 52
Regina von Habsburg age 36
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 52
Princess Elena of Romania age 10
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 20
Bill Haslam age 2
Petar Stambolić age 48
Francis Biddle age 75
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 35