Tip: Click the free calendar ninja poster above to save the high quality version. Everyday a new design will be generated for you. Collect all 16 ninja poses.
Contents
1961 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2017. 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
Historical Events Of 1961
- January 3, 1961 – A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
- January 27, 1961 – Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
- January 31, 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
- February 14, 1961 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
- February 15, 1961 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 27, 1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
- May 25, 1961 – 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.
- July 19, 1961 – Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
- September 12, 1961 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
- September 27, 1961 – Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
Who Were Born On 1961?
- January 8, 1961 – Calvin Smith, American sprinter
- March 4, 1961 – Sabine Everts, German heptathlete
- April 5, 1961 – Lisa Zane, American actress and singer
- April 21, 1961 – David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (d. 2011)
- May 14, 1961 – Jean Leloup, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- June 23, 1961 – Richard Arnold, English lawyer and judge
- August 14, 1961 – Buddy Landel, American wrestler and trainer (d. 2015)
- August 27, 1961 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer, actor, and director
- September 22, 1961 – Vince Coleman, American baseball player
- November 5, 1961 – Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2012)
