events that happened in1961?

Answer 1

John F. Kennedy inaugurated as President of the United States in January 1961.
January 1 - The farthing, used since the 13th century, ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
January 3 - President Dwight Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.
January 3 - At the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls, Idaho, SL-1, an atomic reactor, 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.
January 7 - Following a 4-day conference in Casablanca, 5 African chiefs of state announce plans for a NATO-type African organization to ensure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca involves Morocco, the United Arab Republic, Ghana, Guinea, and Mali.
January 8 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
January 9 - British authorities announce that they have discovered a large Soviet spy ring in London.
January 17 - President Dwight Eisenhower gives his final State of the Union Address to Congress. In a Farewell Address the same day, he warns of the increasing power of a "military-industrial complex".
January 17 - Patrice Lumumba is assassinated.
January 20 - John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th President of the United States.
January 24 - A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress, with two roughly 2.4 megaton nuclear bombs, crashes near Goldsboro, North Carolina.
January 24 - Musician Bob Dylan reportedly makes his way to New York City after bumming a ride in Madison, Wisconsin. Dylan is likely on his way to visit his idol Woody Guthrie. He later finds fame in the Greenwich Village protest folk music scene.
January 25 - In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential news conference. In it, he announces that the Soviet Union has freed the 2 surviving crewmen of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance plane shot down by Soviet flyers over the Barents Sea July 1, 1960. (see RB-47H shot down)
January 25 - Acting to halt 'leftist excesses,' a junta composed of 2 army officers and 4 civilians takes over El Salvador, ousting another junta that had ruled for 3 months.
January 26 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician, the first woman to hold this appointment.
January 30 - President John F. Kennedy delivers his first State of the Union Address.
January 31 - Ham, a 37 pound male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury capsule, designed to carry United States astronauts into space.

February 3 - China buys grain from Canada for $60 million.
February 4 - The Portuguese Colonial War begins in Angola.
February 5 - February 9 - In Congo, President Joseph Kasavubu names Joseph Ileo as the new Prime Minister.
February 13 - The Congo government announces that villagers have killed Patrice Lumumba.
February 14 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized in Berkeley, California.
February 15 - A Sabena Boeing 707 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches.
February 25 - The last public tram operates in Sydney, Australia, bringing to an end the Southern Hemisphere's largest tramway network.
February 26 - Hassan II is pronounced King of Morocco.

March 1: Peace Corps.March 1 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
March 1 - Uganda becomes self-governing by holding its first general elections.
March 3 - Hassan II is crowned King of Morocco.
March 8 - Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.
March 8 - The first U.S. Polaris submarines arrive at Holy Loch.
March 10 - Mike Bullard (hockey) is born.
March 13 - Black and white £5 notes cease to be legal tender in the UK.
March 13 - A dam bursts on the Dnieper River in the USSR, killing 145.
March 13 - USA delegate to the UNSC Adlai Stevenson votes against Portuguese policies in Africa.
March 15 - South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
March 15 - The Union of Peoples of Angola, leaded by Holden Roberto, attacks strategic locations in the north of Angola. These events result in the beginning of the colonial war with Portugal.
March 18 - A ceasefire takes effect in the Algerian War of Independence.
March 18 - Nous les amoureux by Jean-Claude Pascal (music by Jacques Datin, text by Maurice Vidalin) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 for Luxembourg.
March 29 - The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, DC to vote in presidential elections.
March 30 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
April 5 - The New Guinea Council of Western Papua is installed.
April 11 - The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
April 12 - Vostok 1: Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, becomes the first human in space.
April 12 - Albert Kalonji takes the title Emperor Albert I Kalonji of South Kasai.
April 13 - Portugal: fail in a coup attempt against Salazar.
April 17 - The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins; it fails by April 19.
April 18 - Portugal sends to Angola the first military reinforcement.
April 20 - Fidel Castro announces that the Bay of Pigs invasion has been defeated.
April 22 - Algiers putsch: Four French generals who oppose de Gaulle's policies in Algeria fail in a coup attempt.
April 23 - Judy Garland performs in a legendary comeback concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
April 24 - Regalskeppet Vasa was removed from the water after being sunk 333 years earlier.

April 11: Adolf Eichmann on trial for crimes against humanity, in Jerusalem, Israel.May 3 - French Phenomenological Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty died, age 53, of a stroke , apparently while preparing for a class on Descartes.
May 4 - Freedom Riders: 13 black and white students with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) leave Washington DC on 2 buses, to test integration laws in bus stations throughout the deep South.
May 5 - Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.
May 8 - Briton George Blake is sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying.
May 14 - American civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
May 16 - A military coup in South Korea - Park Chung Hee takes over.
May 19 - Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (however, the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
May 21 - American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
May 24 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
May 25 - Apollo program: President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.
May 27 - Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaya, holds a press conference in Singapore, announcing his idea to form the Federation of Malaysia, comprising Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo(Sabah).
May 28 - Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
May 30 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, totalitarian despot of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush, putting an end to the second longest-running dictatorship in Latin American history.
May 31 - In France, rebel generals Maurice Challe and Andre Zelelr are sentenced to 15 years in prison.
May 31 - South Africa officially leaves the Commonwealth of Nations.
May 31 - President John F. Kennedy and Charles De Gaulle meet in Paris.
June 4 - John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev meet during 2 days in Vienna. They discuss nuclear tests, disarmament and Germany.
June 17 - A Paris-to-Strasbourg train derails near Vitry-le-François; 24 are killed, 109 injured.
June 17 - The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
June 19 - The British protectorate ends in Kuwait and it becames an emirate.
June 21 - Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requests asylum in France while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet.
June 22 - Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
June 25 - U.S. philanthropist George Washington Vanderbilt III is found dead at the base of a San Francisco skyscraper.
June 25 - Iraqi president Abdul Karim Kassem announces he is going to annex Kuwait.
June 27 - Kuwait requests British help; the United Kingdom sends in troops.

July 2 - Ernest Hemingway commits suicide by gunshot in Sun Valley, Idaho.
July 4 - The Soviet submarine K-19 reactor leak occurs in the North Atlantic.
July 5 - The first Israeli rocket, Shavit 2, is launched.
July 8 - A mine explosion in Czechoslovakia leaves 108 dead.
July 21 - Mercury program: Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second American to go into space (sub-orbital). Upon splashdown, the hatch prematurely opens, and the capsule sinks (it will be recovered in 1999).
July 31 - At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain. It will be the only tie (until 2002) in MLB All-Star Game history.
July 31 - Ireland submits the first ever application to join the then EEC.

August 5 - The Six Flags over Texas theme park officially opens to the public.
August 10 - Britain applies for membership in the European Economic Community.
August 13 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins. Movement between East Berlin and West Berlin remains restricted for the next 28 years, until November 9, 1989.
August 21 - Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in Kenya.

September 14 - The new military government of Turkey sentences 15 members of the previous government to death.
September 17 - Military rulers in Turkey hang former president Adnan Menderes.
September 17-September 18 - Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash en route to Katanga, Congo.
September 21 - In France, OAS slips an anti-de Gaulle message into TV programming.
September 24 - The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
September 28 - A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.

October 1 - Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, beating the 34-year-old record held by Babe Ruth.
October 9 - Digital Photography invented by Eugene F. Lally presented in a technical paper at the American Rocket Society's Space Flight Report to the Nation in New York.
October 10 - A volcanic eruption on Tristan da Cunha causes the whole population to be evacuated.
October 12 - The death penalty is abolished in New Zealand.
October 17 - Paris massacre of 1961: French police attack in Paris about 30,000 protesting a curfew applied solely to Algerians. The official death toll is 3, but human rights groups claim 240 dead.
October 19 - The Arab League takes over protecting Kuwait; the last British troops leave.
October 25 - The first edition of Private Eye, the British satirical magazine, is published.
October 27 - An armistice begins in Katanga, Congo.
October 27 - Mongolia and Mauritania join the United Nations.
October 27 - A standoff between Soviet and American tanks in Berlin, Germany heightens Cold War tensions.
October 29 - RBS Channel 7, the Philippines' third TV station, is launched.
October 30 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates a 58 megaton yield hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya. It remains the largest ever (man-made) explosion.
October 31 - Hurricane Hattie devastates Belize City, Belize killing over 270. After the hurricane, the capital moves to the inland city of Belmopan.
October 31 - Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin Mausoleum.

November 1 - The Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect.
November 2 - Kean opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 92 performances.
November 3 - The UN General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General.
November 6 - The U.S. government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith.
November 9 - Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6,587km/h flying a X-15.
November 10 - Catch-22 is first published by Joseph Heller.
November 11 - Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots.
November 11 - Stalingrad is renamed Volgograd.
November 18 - Gay Life opens at Shubert Theater in New York City, for 113 performances.
November 18 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
November 20 - The funeral of longtime House Speaker Sam Rayburn is held in Washington, DC. Two former Presidents (Truman, Eisenhower) and one future one (Lyndon B. Johnson) join President Kennedy in paying their respects.
November 30 - The Soviet Union vetoes Kuwait's application for United Nations membership.

Adolf Eichmann found guiltyDecember 1 - Netherlands New Guinea raises the new Morning Star flag and changes its name to West Papua.
December 2 - Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares he is a Marxist-Leninist, and that Cuba will adopt Communism.
December 5 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives support to the Volta Dam project in Ghana.
December 9 - Tanganyika gains independence and declares itself a republic, with Julius Nyerere as its first President.
December 9 - The Australian government of Robert Menzies is re-elected for a sixth term.
December 10 - The Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Albania.
December 11 - The Vietnam War officially begins, as the first American helicopters arrive in Saigon along with 400 U.S. personnel.
December 11 - Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity by a panel of 3 Israeli judges.
December 11 - Nobel Prize: Malvin Calvin is awarded the Nobel Prize for the process of photosynthesis.
December 15 - An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentences Adolf Eichmann to die for his part in the Jewish Holocaust.
December 17 - India occupies Goa.
December 17 - Circus tent fire in Niteroi, Brazil kills 323.
December 18 - India occupies portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu
December 19 - Goa is officially ceded to India after 400 years of Portuguese rule.
December 19 - Sukarno announces that he will take West Irian by force if necessary.
December 21 - In Congo, Katangan prime minister Moise Tshombe recognizes the Congolese constitution.
December 23 - Luxembourg's national holiday, the Grand Duke's Official Birthday, is set on June 23 by Grand Ducal decree.
December 30 - Congolese troops capture Albert Kalonji of South Kasai (who soon escapes).
December 31 - The Marshall Plan expires, after having distributed more than $12 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
December 31 - Ireland's first national television station, Teilifís Éireann (later RTÉ), begins broadcasting.

Answer 2

For most commonwealth countries the 19th of June was an important date.
We write our dates 19 / 6 /1961 (not 6 / 19/1961)
so if you took the 19th of June in that year and turned it upside down you would still have the same day in the Gregorian calender.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

John made a Penutbutter and Jelly sandwhich.

Answer 5

A lot of things, including my Bar Mitzvah. You will have to be more specific if you want a useful answer.

Answer 6

April 1st 1961 my father died

Answer 7

Birth of Urbaba.

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961

Answer 9

was it cold war