March 2, 1961 (Thursday)
- Algerian War: Algerian nationalist leader Ferhat Abbas announced in Rabat, Morocco, that the FLN had agreed to French President Charles de Gaulle's proposal to begin peace talks on Algerian independence. By then, the war was in its seventh year.
- Congolese soldiers killed 44 civilians in the city of Luluabourg (now Kananga), capital of the Kasai province.
- Twenty-two underground coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Viking Coal Company near Terre Haute, Indiana.
- At the age of 79, artist Pablo Picasso married 35 year old Jacqueline Roque. The two remained together until his death in 1973.
- Died: Olaf Hagerup, 71, Danish botanist
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“The march of the human mind is slow.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)