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1961 Calendar

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•  February 3, 1961 – A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
•  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.
•  April 9, 1961 – The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
•  April 12, 1961 – The Russian (Soviet) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
•  August 10, 1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
•  September 10, 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
•  September 15, 1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
•  September 19, 1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
•  December 15, 1961 – In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.

•  January 1, 1961 – Fiona Phillips, British television presenter
•  January 14, 1961 – Mike Tramp, Danish singer (White Lion)
•  January 29, 1961 – Petra Thumer, German swimmer
•  April 12, 1961 – Charles Mann, American football player
•  May 12, 1961 – Billy Duffy, British guitarist (The Cult)
•  June 18, 1961 – Alison Moyet, English pop singer
•  July 18, 1961 – M.J. Alexander, American author and photographer
•  September 16, 1961 – T La Rock, American old-school emcee
•  September 23, 1961 – Chi McBride, American actor
•  November 4, 1961 – Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer