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| 1961 |
| | | British author Roald Dahl publishes a novel for children, James and the Giant Peach | |
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| 1961 |
| | | An invasion force of about 1500 Cuban exiles comes ashore in Cuba's Bay of Pigs in an attempt to topple the Castro regime | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Two days after landing in the Bay of Pigs, 114 Cuban exiles are dead and about 1300 have been captured | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Joshua Nkomo founds ZAPU, the Zimbabwe African People's Union, in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti makes his operatic debut in Reggio Emilia, as Rodolfo in La Bohème | |
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| 1961 |
| | | US astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, with a suborbital flight in Freedom 7 | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Arthur Miller writes the screenplay for The Misfits for his wife, Marilyn Monroe | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Caribbean novelist V.S. Naipaul features his Trinidad family in A House for Mr Biswas | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Two French generals, Raoul Salan and Edmond Jouhaud, form the OAS (Organisation de l'Armée Secrète) to preserve French rule in Algeria | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic for the past 30 years, is killed by a machine-gun attack on his car | |
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