The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62.
I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.
I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.
When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
