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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
- January 31, 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
- February 4, 1961 – Angolan War of Independence begins.
- February 15, 1961 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
- April 30, 1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
- May 4, 1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113740 ft.
- May 22, 1961 – An earthquake rocks New South Wales.
- June 16, 1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
- 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 22, 1961 – Ida Siekmann dies attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
- October 1, 1961 – East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
Who Were Born On 1961?
- April 5, 1961 – Lisa Zane, American actress and singer
- April 20, 1961 – Corrado Micalef, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- May 19, 1961 – Vadim Cojocaru, Moldovan politician
- June 22, 1961 – Stephen Batchelor, English field hockey player and coach
- July 8, 1961 – Toby Keith, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- July 20, 1961 – Óscar Elías Biscet, Cuban physician and activist, founded the Lawton Foundation
- August 3, 1961 – Lee Rocker, American bassist (Stray Cats)
- August 13, 1961 – Dawnn Lewis, American actress and singer
- September 22, 1961 – Vince Coleman, American baseball player
- October 19, 1961 – Sunny Deol, Indian actor and producer