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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
3 August – Suicide Act 1961 decriminalises acts of, or attempts at suicide in England and Wales. 10 August – The UK applies for membership of the EEC . 16 August – The play Lady Chatterley by John Harte – based on D. H. Lawrence's novel – opens at the Arts Theatre in London and is well-reviewed by West End theatre critic Harold Hobson.
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.
May 5, 1961: Launch of Freedom 7 At 9:34 a.m., Alan Shepard became the first American in space as Mercury 3 lifted off from Cape Canaveral . Shepard's spacecraft Freedom 7, first of the Mercury program , reached an altitude of 115 miles (185 km) without achieving orbit, and was recovered 19 minutes later by the aircraft carrier USS Lake ...
The following events occurred in June 1961: ... (which reportedly happened a week later on June 25). Reports of sightings would continue until 1965. ...
In October 2000, construction on a new, more modern bridge began. The outer loop span of the new bridge opened in June 2006; the inner loop 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.