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The following events occurred in October 1961: ==October 1, 1961 (Sunday)== *The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the country's first centralized military espionage organization, was formed.〔Defense Intelligence Agency 35 Years: A Brief History (DIA History Office, 1996) p5〕 *CTV Television Network was launched at 6:30 pm on eight stations across Canada, with the one hour program "Sneak Preview- glimpses of things to come", followed by ''77 Sunset Strip'' at 7:30. The first Canadian program shown, after the 10:30 news and sports, was the game show ''Scrimmage'' at 10:50.〔"TV Weekly", p4, ''Ottawa Citizen'', September 30, 1961; Michael Nolan, ''CTV, the Network that Means Business'' (University of Alberta, 2001) p5〕 *Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, beating the 34-year-old record held by Babe Ruth. The homer was made at 1:46 pm at Yankee Stadium, off of Boston pitcher Tracy Stallard, in the game's fourth inning. The run won the game, 1-0.〔"'I'm The Only Man To Hit 61 Homers!'", ''Miami News'', October 2, 1961, p1C〕 Sal Durante, a 19-year-old spectator, got the baseball and won $5,000 and other prizes.〔"Kid Who Caught It To Pay Folks' Debt", ''Miami News'', October 2, 1961, p1C〕 *The Federal Republic of Cameroon came into existence with the merger of the French-speaking Republic of Cameroun and the former British Cameroons.〔Stephen L. Bishop, ''Legal Oppositional Narrative: A Case Study in Cameroon'' (Lexington Books, 2008) p xvi〕 *Advertising executive Lester Wunderman coined the phrase "direct marketing" in a speech in New York to the Hundred Million Club, an organization of businesspeople using direct mail.〔("Inventory of the Lester Wunderman Papers, 1946-2010 and undated" ), Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University〕 *The first SIP1 launch by the US Navy is successful, reaching an apogee of . *Tony Marsh won the 1961 Lewis-Evans Trophy at Brands Hatch. *In the UK soap ''Coronation Street'', two major characters, Harry Hewitt and Concepta Riley, married on screen. *Evangelist Pat Robertson began religious broadcasting on WTFC Channel 27, a UHF television station in Portsmouth, Virginia. He would later beam the programming by satellite to cable systems nationwide as the Christian Broadcasting Network.〔David John Marley, ''Pat Robertson: An American Life'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) p23〕 *Died: Donald Cook, 60, American actor; and David Pratt, 54, South African farmer who shot and wounded South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in April 1960, by suicide.〔"Verwoerd's Assailant A Suicide", ''Miami News'', October 2, 1961, p6A〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「October 1961」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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