Editing 1961 (section)

===July===
{{Main|July 1961}}
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Soviet submarine K-19]] suffers a reactor leak in the North Atlantic.
* [[July 5]] &ndash; The first Israeli rocket, ''[[Shavit 2]]'', is launched.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2007-12-18|url= http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Egypt/Missile/index.html|title=Missile Overview|publisher=Nuclear Threat Initiative|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105202129/http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Egypt/Missile/index.html |archive-date=2008-01-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[July 7]] &ndash; A [[Dukla coal mine|coal mine]] in [[Czechoslovakia]] has one of it's sections closed off in order to extinguish a fire and prevent an explosion, causing the suffocation of 108 miners still present.
* [[July 12]]
** A Czechoslovakian [[Ilyushin Il-18]] crashes while attempting to land at [[Casablanca]], Morocco, killing all 72 on board.
** [[Khadakwasla Dam|Two dams]] that supply water to the city of [[Pune]] in India burst, causing the death of more than 1000 residents. 
* [[July 19]]
** [[Trans World Airlines]] becomes the first airline to show regularly scheduled movies during its flights, presenting ''[[By Love Possessed (film)|By Love Possessed]]'' to 1st-class passengers.<ref>{{cite news|title=Today in History|newspaper=The Washington Post Express|date=19 July 2011|page=37}}</ref>
** [[Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 644]], a [[Douglas DC-6]], encounters severe turbulence not long after takeoff from [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]], and crashes, killing all 67 on board.
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Mercury program]]: [[Gus Grissom]], piloting the [[Mercury-Redstone 4]] spacecraft ''Liberty Bell 7'', becomes the second American to go into space (sub-orbital). After splashdown, the hatch prematurely opens, and the spacecraft sinks (it is recovered in [[1999]]).
* [[July 25]] &ndash; U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy]] gives a widely watched TV speech on the [[Berlin Crisis of 1961|Berlin Crisis]], warning "we will not be driven out of Berlin." Kennedy urges Americans to build fallout shelters, setting off a four-month debate on civil defense.
* [[July 31]]
** At [[Fenway Park]] in [[Boston]], the first [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game]] tie occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain (the only tie until [[2002]]).
** [[Ireland]] submits the first application from a non-founding country to join the [[European Economic Community]].