Events
- 12 January - Princess Astrid marries Johan Martin Ferner.
- March - Ingrid Bjerkås, ordained as first female minister in the Church of Norway
- 15 April - The Socialist People's Party was founded.
- 9 August - Holtaheia disaster: A British passenger plane crashes in Strand. All 39 passengers aboard, including 34 children, are killed.
- 11 September - The 1961 Parliamentary election takes place.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)