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1961 Calendar

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•  January 3, 1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
•  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 9, 1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
•  April 11, 1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
•  April 30, 1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
•  June 4, 1961 – In the Vienna summit, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
•  June 17, 1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.
•  August 10, 1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
•  December 2, 1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.

•  January 19, 1961 – William Ragsdale, American actor
•  February 13, 1961 – Kyi Hla Han, Burmese golfer
•  June 3, 1961 – Peter Vidmar, American gymnast
•  June 22, 1961 – Stephen Batchelor, British field-hockey player
•  June 24, 1961 – Iain Glen, Scottish actor
•  July 23, 1961 – Woody Harrelson, American actor
•  August 4, 1961 – Eddie James, American murderer and sex offender
•  September 29, 1961 – Julia Gillard, Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia
•  November 6, 1961 – Craig Goldy, American musician (Dio)
•  November 14, 1961 – Antonio Flores, Spanish singer and songwriter (d. 1995)