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1961 Yearly calendar

 
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EVENTS
1961-09-15  Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.  
1961-02-27  The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.  
1961-12-01  The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.  
1961-10-31  In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.  
1961-01-31  Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.  
1961-02-14  Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.  
1961-05-01  The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.  
1961-05-24  American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.  
1961-02-16  Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.  
1961-07-12  Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams. Half of Pune is submerged, more than 100,000 families need to be relocated and the death tally exceeds 2,000.  
1961-10-27  Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.  
1961-09-28  A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.  
1961-03-01  President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.  
1961-04-12  Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).  
1961-07-25  In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.  
1961-08-15  Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.  
1961-10-29  Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.  
1961-05-30  Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  
1961-04-20  Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.  
1961-01-25  In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.  
1961-07-31  At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.  
1961-09-01  The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.  
1961-04-23  Algiers putsch by French generals.  
1961-12-17  History of Goa: Operation Vijay – India seizes Goa from Portugal.  
1961-11-01  50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.  
1961-05-25  Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.  
1961-03-15  South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.  
1961-06-19  Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.  
1961-05-09  Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.  
1961-09-10  Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.  
1961-12-09  The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with verdicts of guilty on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.  
1961-09-30  Business Leader Tim Boissinot born to Anne and John Boissinot in Toronto Canada  
1961-11-29  Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico.  
1961-12-09  Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.  
1961-04-27  Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.  
1961-05-28  Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.  
1961-09-05  The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.  
1961-11-18  United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.  
1961-09-19  Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.  
1961-08-15  Keiyo Road is specified as the first driveway in Japan.  
1961-01-03  The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers.  
1961-01-26  John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.  
1961-03-03  Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.  
1961-03-30  The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.  
1961-05-21  American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.  
1961-05-19  Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).  
1961-04-18  CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.  
1961-10-01  East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.  
1961-01-24  1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.  
1961-10-30  Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.  
1961-07-21  Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).  
1961-07-23  The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.  
1961-04-17  Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.  
1961-06-23  Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.  
1961-09-21  Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.  
1961-01-08  In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.  
1961-02-15  Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team, several coaches and family.  
1961-10-30  Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.  
1961-02-16  The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.  
1961-08-28  Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.  
1961-06-17  The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.  
1961-03-29  The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.  
1961-07-04  Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skørping in Denmark.  
1961-05-24  Cyprus enters the Council of Europe.  
1961-04-25  Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.  
1961-10-17  Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.  
1961-04-24  The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged.  
1961-05-14  American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.  
1961-04-11  The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.  
1961-01-03  The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.  
1961-07-20  French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.  
1961-09-27  Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.  
1961-05-05  The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.  
1961-12-15  In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.  
1961-12-02  In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.  
1961-02-12  U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.  
1961-10-27  NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.  
1961-08-13  The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.  
1961-09-18  U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  
1961-01-20  John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the youngest elected and first Roman Catholic President of the U.S. His inaugural address is one of the most memorable of the 20th century.  
1961-05-04  American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.  
1961-05-31  Republic of South Africa created.  
1961-12-19  India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.  
1961-12-18  Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea.  
1961-03-01  Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.  
1961-12-14  The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations.  
1961-01-17  President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".  
1961-04-19  The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.  



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