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At the National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho, atomic reactor SL-1 explodes, killing 3 military technicians. January 5 – Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
4 January. United States Ambassador to South Vietnam Elbridge Durbrow forwarded a counterinsurgency plan for South Vietnam to the State Department in Washington. The plan provided for an increase in the size of the ARVN from 150,000 to 170,000 to be financed by the United States, an increase in the size of the Civil Guard from about 50,000 to 68,000 to be partially financed by the United ...
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
As part of the larger Congo Crisis (1960–1964), the siege of Jadotville began on 13 September 1961, lasting for five days. [15] While serving under the United Nations Operation in the Congo (Opération des Nations Unies au Congo, ONUC), a small contingent of the Irish Army's 35th Battalion, designated "A" Company, were besieged at the UN base near the mining town of Jadotville (modern-day ...
Pages in category "1961 in military history" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
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.
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The following events happened in August 1961: ... India and Ireland captured military posts, and within 12 hours, 79 foreigners had been arrested, ...