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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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| 1961 |
| | | Commonwealth opposition to apartheid causes South Africa to leave the organization and become a republic | |
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| 1961 |
| | | US author Joseph Heller publishes his first novel, Catch-22, set in the last months of World War II | |
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| 1961 |
| | | British choreographer John Cranko becomes director of the Stuttgart Ballet | |
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| c. 1961 |
| | | The drug Thalidomide, synthesized in West Germany, is shown to have been the cause of severe defects in about 12,000 children born in 46 countries | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Kirov company at Le Bourget airport and seeks political asylum in France | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Syria withdraws from the United Arab Republic (UAR) seeing it as unacceptably dominated by Egypt | |
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| 1961 |
| | | President Kennedy commits the US to placing a man on the moon and bringing him back safely by 1970 | |
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| 1961 |
| | | The novelist Ernest Hemingway kills himself with a shotgun in his log cabin in Idaho | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Nelson Mandela and the ANC adopt guerrilla tactics against the apartheid regime in South Africa | |
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