1961 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1961?
- January 3, 1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
- February 15, 1961 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
- April 11, 1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
- April 20, 1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.
- April 27, 1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
- May 24, 1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
- May 30, 1961 – Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
- June 16, 1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
- June 17, 1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.
- June 23, 1961 – 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.
- July 12, 1961 – 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.
- July 19, 1961 – Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
- August 10, 1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
- September 1, 1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
- September 11, 1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
- September 15, 1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
- September 19, 1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
- October 3, 1961 – The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS-TV in the United States.
- December 9, 1961 – 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.
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