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1961 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2034. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1961 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1961
- February 15, 1961 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
- April 17, 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
- May 22, 1961 – An earthquake rocks New South Wales.
- May 25, 1961 – The Bukit Ho Swee Fire, the biggest fire in Singapore history.
- 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.
- September 7, 1961 – João Goulart becomes President of Brazil.
- September 16, 1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
- September 18, 1961 – The NAFC and CCCF merge into CONCACAF.
- October 27, 1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
- November 29, 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
Who Were Born On 1961?
- April 19, 1961 – Spike Owen, American baseball player and coach
- April 20, 1961 – Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
- August 28, 1961 – Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
- October 1, 1961 – Gary Ablett, Sr., Australian footballer
- October 3, 1961 – Maxx Payne, American wrestler and actor
- October 8, 1961 – Sandy Andolong, Filipino actress and producer
- November 12, 1961 – Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast
- November 25, 1961 – Paul Comstive, English footballer (d. 2013)
- November 26, 1961 – Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, Indian-English businessman, co-founded Cobra Beer
- December 19, 1961 – Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate