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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 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.
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
Events from the year 1961 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government. President: Dwight D. Eisenhower (R-Kansas/Pennsylvania) (until January 20) John F ...
The following events occurred in June 1961: ... (which reportedly happened a week later on June 25). Reports of sightings would continue until 1965. ...
December 1, 1961: U.S. Department of Defense begins distribution of fallout shelter signs [1] December 11, 1961: Three-judge panel in Israel announces guilty verdict in trial of former German general Adolf Eichmann December 28, 1961: Edith Wilson, "The First Woman U.S. President", dies at 89. The following events occurred in December 1961:
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
April 28, 1961: Launch of Little Joe 5B. Little Joe 5B, the final uncrewed test of the Launch Escape System of the Mercury spacecraft, was launched from Wallops Island, Virginia, exactly one week before the first American astronaut would be launched from Cape Canaveral. A misfire sent the rocket to an altitude of only 14,000 feet (4,300 m), far ...
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