Timeline Sunday 1 January 1961

Events on Sunday 1 January 1961 3

• 1961 1961: Phil Hill Ferrari Hill became the first American World Champion, but his title was won amid tragedy — his teammate Wolfgang von Trips was killed at Monza in the penultimate race.
• 1961 First Major Hit Scored his first major songwriting hit with Tower of Strength for Gene McDaniels, beginning an extraordinary run of chart success.
• 1961 – 1963 Soft Sculptures and Studio with Judd and Hesse Moved her studio into the same building as Donald Judd and Eva Hesse, who became a close friend. Began creating 'soft sculptures' — ladders, shoes and chairs covered with white phallic protrusions. When she exhibited a phallus-covered couch at the Green Gallery in 1963, Claes Oldenburg soon began exhibiting similar sewn soft sculptures, causing Kusama great distress.