1961
Timeline
Before 1900
Prehistoric eras: Precambrian • Carboniferous • Permian • Jurassic • Cretaceous • Last Ice Age
Before 1800: 79 • 1274 • 1348 • 1357 • 1502 • 1556 • 1588 • 1605 • 1749
1900–1999
'00s: 1901 • 1902 • 1903 • 1904 • 1905 • 1906 • 1907 • 1908 • 1909
'20s: 1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 • 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929
'40s: 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949
'60s: 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969
'80s: 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989
2000–present
In the real world
January
- Asahi Weekly publishes The Luminous Fairies and Mothra.
- Godzilla Raids Again is released in Brazil.
- 1 January: The King Kong novelization enters the public domain.
- 5 January: Battle in Outer Space is released in Mexico.
- 10 January: Gorgo is released in Japan under the title Monster Gorgo.
- 12 January: Battle in Outer Space is released in Italy.
February
- 2 February: Shuzaburo Araki passes away at the age of 48.
March
- 2 March: The Mysterians is released in Denmark.
- 3 March: The Giant Behemoth is released in West Germany.
- 16 March: Michiru Oshima is born in Nagasaki, Japan.
- 26 March: Konga is released in England.
- 29 March: Gorgo is released in the United States.
May
- 3 May: The H-Man is released in Portugal.
- 26 May: Toshio Miike is born in Kumamoto, Japan.
June
- Charlton Comics publishes the first issue of Konga and the first issue of Gorgo.
July
- 13 July: Battle in Outer Space is released in Portugal.
- 30 July: Mothra is released in Japan.
August
- 10 August: Charlton Comics publishes the second issue of Gorgo.
- 23 August: Alexandre Desplat is born in Paris, France.
October
- Charlton Comics publishes the third issue of Konga.
- 8 October: The Last War is released to Japanese theaters.
- 10 October: Hiroshi Butsuda is born in Yamaga, Kumamoto, Japan.
- 31 October: Peter Jackson is born in Wellington, New Zealand.
In fiction
- Two small fairies called the Shobijin are discovered on the irradiated Infant Island, and are stolen. Their monster god Mothra hatches and crawls to Tokyo to save them. The giant larva then builds a cocoon and transforms into its adult form. It then finally locates her small priestesses and takes them back to Infant Island. (Mothra)
- A young sea monster named Gorgo is awoken by volcanic eruptions off the coast of Ireland. He is taken away by humans to London, only to have his mother, Ogra, travel across England to look for him. After she destroys most of London, she is reunited with her son, and the two leave peacefully. (Gorgo)
- A group of scientists, investigating rumors of a Wild Boy in Hiroshima, find him hiding in a cave. While studying and reintegrating the Boy, they find that he is immune to radiation poisoning. The boy grows eventually grows to an inhuman size, and the scientists are confronted with evidence that he may have been created from Frankenstein's Monster's heart being irradiated by the bombing of Hiroshima. After becoming agitated by a group of reporters, Frankenstein's Monster breaks free and escapes into the wild, leaving behind a severed hand. Soon there are reports of villages ravaged by an unknown monster, with these attacks being blamed on Frankenstein's Monster. The scientists form a search party and go into the mountains looking for Frankenstein, but soon encounter the Subterranean Monster Baragon. Frankenstein comes to the scientists' rescue and confronts Baragon, ultimately killing the beast. A fissures opens up beneath Frankenstein and he sinks beneath it, presumed dead. (Frankenstein vs. Baragon)
- Alternatively, after defeating Baragon, Frankenstein engages in a fight with a Giant Octopus and is pulled underwater.
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