About the day » Saturday March 18, 1961Calender converter

• Bradley Eugene Rutherford († 2020)
• kind 5, Broekland († 1961)
• Peter van Dassen, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Robin Lynn Schoffelman, Sioux Vly. Hosp., Sioux Fls., Minnehaha Co., SD († 2009)
• Kathryn Elizabeth (Kate) ADAMS, Tasmania, Australia († 2002)
• (Stillborn) VOOS, Eenrum Groningen Netherlands († 1961)
• Michael Joseph HLADKY († 1976)
• Martine De Belie
• Gerhardus Wilhelmus RABEN, Wisch, Gelderland, Nederland († 2014)
• Francine Helderweirt, Brugge

• Carel Albert Reesink (80), Brummen
• Anna Annie RICE (74), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Magdalena Proost (73), Rotterdam
• Andreas Jepp (75), Vaals, Gemeente Vaals, Limburg, Nederland
• Arend van Munster (68)
• Bertha Strootman (73), Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Antonia van der Tweel (77), Bussum
• (Stillborn) VOOS (0), Eenrum Groningen Netherlands
• Anna Maria Fernig (83), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonia van der Tweel (77), Bussum

• 1960 » Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 » James Plaskett, Cypriot-English chess player
• 1960 » Richard Biggs, American actor († 2004)
• 1961 » Grant Hart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2017)
• 1962 » Brian Fisher, American baseball player
• 1962 » Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor and director
• 1962 » Irene Cara, American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer
• 1962 » James McMurtry, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1962 » Michael Andrews, Australian rugby league player
• 1962 » Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor and martial artist

• 1947 » William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)
• 1954 » Walter Mead, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist and author (b. 1896)
• 1962 » Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
• 1964 » Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)
• 1965 » Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)
• 1973 » Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880)
• 1977 » Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1977 » Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
• 1978 » Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Peter
4. Cornelis
5. Robert
6. Hendrik
7. John
8. Willem
9. Pieter
10. Gerrit
11. Ronald
12. Paul
13. Michael
14. Petrus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Yvonne
7. Catharina
8. Jacqueline
9. Karin
10. Wilhelmina
11. Ingrid
12. Monique
13. Adriana
14. Petronella
15. Marianne
16. Anita

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
• March 1 » United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• April 11 » The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
• April 20 » Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
• September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• October 30 » Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
• December 17 » Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.

The temperature on March 18, 1961 was between 3.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.