1961 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1961?
- January 8, 1961 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle’s policies in Algeria.
- February 3, 1961 – The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a “Doomsday Plane” is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States’ bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC’s command post.
- February 15, 1961 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
- March 15, 1961 – South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- April 3, 1961 – The Leadbeater’s Possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years.
- April 18, 1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
- April 30, 1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
- May 9, 1961 – Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
- May 21, 1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
- May 24, 1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
- June 4, 1961 – In the Vienna summit, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
- August 11, 1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
- August 22, 1961 – Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
- September 11, 1961 – Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
- September 12, 1961 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
- October 31, 1961 – In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin’s body is removed from Lenin’s Tomb.
- November 11, 1961 – thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
- November 18, 1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
- December 9, 1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
- December 14, 1961 – The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations.
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