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1961 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1961st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 961st year of the ...
Events from the year 1961 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government. President: Dwight D. Eisenhower (R-Kansas/Pennsylvania) (until January 20) John F ...
January 20, 1961: Kennedy inaugurated as 35th U.S. President January 17, 1961: Outgoing U.S. President Eisenhower warns against the "military-industrial complex" January 24, 1961: Nuclear bomb accidentally dropped on Goldsboro, NC January 1, 1961: British farthing, worth 1 ⁄ 4 a penny, discontinued after 600 years
February 21, 1961: Launch of Mercury-Atlas 2. Mercury-Atlas 2 was launched from Cape Canaveral in a test to check maximum heating and its effects during the worst reentry design conditions. The flight closely matched the desired trajectory and attained a maximum altitude of 114.04 statute miles and a range of 1,431.6 statute miles.
November 5, 1961: Mamie Stewart's body discovered after 42 years. The remains of Welsh chorus girl Mamie Stuart, who had disappeared in 1919, were located 42 years after her death. Three amateur cave explorers had gone into an abandoned lead mine at Brandy Cove in Wales, and found a sack protruding from a stone slab. Looking for a possible ...
The following events occurred in June 1961: ... (which reportedly happened a week later on June 25). Reports of sightings would continue until 1965. ...
September 1, 1961: Eritrea (green) begins 29 year fight for independence from Ethiopia September 18, 1961: UN Secretary-General Hammarskjöld killed in plane crash September 9, 1961: USS Long Beach, world's first nuclear-powered surface ship, commissioned September 17, 1961: Turkey's ex-premier Menderes revived from drug overdose, then hanged
In October 2000, construction on a new, more modern replacement consisting of two separate spans began. The downstream span of the new bridge opened in June 2006; the upstream span opening just 2 years later. The original 1961 bridge would be demolished in July 2006. [105] [106] The Defence Food Research Laboratory was established in Mysore, India.