1961 Calendar
A year scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

1961 Calendar

January
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031    
February
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728    
March
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 
April
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30      
May
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031   
June
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627282930 
July
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     
August
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
September
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
October
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031    
November
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
2627282930  
December
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31      

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1961 Historical Event(s)

January 26, 1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
February 12, 1961 – U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
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.
March 1, 1961 – President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
May 1, 1961 – The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
September 27, 1961 – Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
September 28, 1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
October 31, 1961 – In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin’s body is removed from Lenin’s Tomb.
November 11, 1961 – thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.

Who Were Born On 1961?

February 6, 1961 – Yuri Onufriyenko, Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut
March 4, 1961 – Tinker Juarez, bike racer
March 15, 1961 – Craig Ludwig, American ice hockey player
May 13, 1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
May 14, 1961 – Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
July 5, 1961 – Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano
July 28, 1961 – Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
August 11, 1961 – Craig Ehlo, American basketball player
September 5, 1961 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist
September 30, 1961 – Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress