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  1. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
    9: ...It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the country's cap...
    15: ...Atlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were buil...
    17: ...dation is at the feet of now world famous Sugar Loaf mountain (P㯭de-A纣ar). Later, the whole city w...
    19:
    25: Rio was maintained as Brazilian capital after the military overthrew the [[monarchy]] and im...
  2. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    7: ...], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
    38: * [[1995]] - After attending a peace rally in [[Tel Aviv]]'s King...
    69: *[[1961]] - [[Kathy Griffin]], comedienne, actress
    70: *1961 - [[Ralph Macchio]], actor
    110: [[af:4 November]]
  3. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    9: ...ngest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
    15: ...s wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are tho...
    29: ...47]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast ...
    35: After their wedding Philip and Elizabeth took up res...
    38: ...Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Frances Spencer]] ([[1961]]–[[1997]]); married ([[9 April]] [[2005]])...
  4. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    6: date_of_birth=[[1 July]], [[1961]] |
    11: ...Mountbatten-Windsor]], n饠Spencer) ([[1 July]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[w...
    15: ...a, Princess of Wales was a [[role model]] — after her death, there were even calls for her to be...
    22: ...ter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being named as the "other party" in the Earl a...
    34: ...the most senior royal woman in the United Kingdom after the Queen and the Queen Mother.
  5. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
    2: ... Kingdom|Queen Anne]]. This came about some time after [[1673]], when she joined the household of the...
    6: ...dly with the prince and his family, however, even after this plan had failed.
    8: ...itle=[[Mistress of the Robes]] | before=— | after=[[Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset|The D...
  6. Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
    2: ...] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
    28: ...ne of two women to do this. She later recalled, "After I signed, I cried. When I studied American his...
    42: After [[Levi Eshkol]] died suddenly on [[February 26...
    55: ...e Knesset, reported in ''[[Ner]]'', [[October]] [[1961]].
    65: ...ambers of the nazis." -Golda Meir to Pope Paul VI after he commented that the Jews were behaving very ...
  7. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    5: ...Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and approved the [[UN Universal Declaration of...
    13: ...of the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President...
    15: ...ecome the Mrs. Roosevelt?s column ''[[My Day]]''. After a few years away from Washington Hickok return...
    22: ... for their racism), she was the connection to the African-American population and helped Mr. Roosevelt...
    31: ==Life After the White House==
  8. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    36: ...s not re-elected as an Alderman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
    41: ...ervative candidate but fought in the [[safe seat|safe]] Labour seat of [[Dartford (UK Parliament const...
    43: Thatcher had begun to look for a safe Conservative seat, and was narrowly rejected as ...
    45: ...moved to the Shadow [[HM Treasury|Treasury]] Team after [[1966]].
    52: ...vernment had lost control of [[monetary policy]]. After Heath lost the [[United Kingdom general electi...
  9. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...ity of Toronto|Victoria College]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and ...
    32: :''[[Double Persephone]]'' ([[1961]])
  10. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    3: ...or her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
    7: ...nya where they operated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, th...
    20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA...
    25: ...dows on the Grass'' (1960 in England and Denmark, 1961 in USA)
    30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, USA)
  11. Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
    16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
  12. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    19: ...ls). There is a story told that she named herself after the [[Remington Rand]] [[typewriter]], but rec...
    33: ...n [[World War II]] under the best possible light. After the HUAC hearings, when Ayn Rand was asked abo...
    39: ...the fact that both were married at the time. This affair was cleared with their spouses but led to the...
    43: ..., including dishonesty, but did not mention their affair or her role in the schism. The two never reco...
    46: ...ent began to decline, a situation which increased after the death of her husband in [[1979]]. One of h...
  13. Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
    6: In 1937 she was posted to the [[Luftwaffe]] testing center at [[Rechlin]] by [[Ernst Udet...
    8: ... world War 2, and the only woman awarded the Luftwaffe Combined Pilot and Observer Badge with Diamonds...
    12: ...he escaped Berlin through heavy Russian anti-aircraft fire.
    14: Held for 18 months by the American military after the war, she was interrogated and then release...
    16: ...rman citizens were forbidden from flying, except, after a few years, in gliders. In 1952 '''Hanna Reit...
  14. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed ...
    22: ...1996]] she died in [[Beverly Hills, California]], after having made some sad last [[Television|TV]] ap...
    28: ...n releasing albums on the [[Decca Records]] label after years of releasing singles.
    56: *1961 ''[[Ella in Hollywood]]''
    57: *1961 ''[[Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!]]''
  15. Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
    2: ... (born [[March 25]], [[1942]]) is an [[iconic]] [[African-American]] [[gospel music|gospel]], [[soul m...
    6: ...the age 14. She signed with [[Columbia Records]] after being discovered by legendary A&R man [[John H...
    8: ...lly famous artist and a symbol of pride for the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself ...
    12: ...edding]] single which became her signature song. After the R&B category was added to the [[Grammy Awa...
    18: ...usly and she gave no interviews for several years after that. She lives today in Detroit.
  16. Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
    5: ...Klaus Rainer R?], a [[communism|communist]], in [[1961]] and had twin girls, Bettina and Regine, on [[Se...
  17. Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
    8: ...e, e.g., that she died between three and 15 years after the [[crucifixion]] of Jesus, can be found in ...
    13: ...er condition, and took her to his own home. Soon after this the decree of [[Augustus Caesar|Augustus]...
    17: ...public miracle performed by Jesus (John 2:1-11). After this point, there is little mention of Mary in...
    19: Of the roughly 100 people in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day of [[Pentecost]], she...
    31: ...thodox tradition, between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension, in either Jerusalem or Eph...
  18. Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
    3: ...de l'Eucharistie," the convent's Mother Superior. After the fall of France to [[Germany]] in [[World W...
    7: In [[1961]], the government of France honored her with her ...
  19. Julia Child (8199 bytes)
    2: ...elevision programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' ...
    6: ...joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turned down by the [[United States Navy ...
    10: ...large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States State Department | U.S. St...
    20: ...clopedia. Finally, when it was first published in 1961 by [[Alfred A. Knopf]], the 734-page ''[[Masterin...
    22: ...d to the inception of her television cooking show after viewers enjoyed her demonstration of how to co...
  20. Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
    4: ... was born in [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]]. In [[1922]], after a series of anti-Semitic [[pogroms]] and becau...
    6: ...hes of the Afternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avan...
    8: ...rimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
    10: ... accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death.
    12: Deren passed away in 1961, at the age of 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. ...

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