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Vietnam (1961-75)

Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. more...

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Contents  (full)
1 Events of 1961
-  Jan. . Feb. . March . April
-  May . June . July  .  Aug.
-  Sept. . Oct. . Nov. .  Dec.
-  Undated . Ongoing .
-  World population
2 Births
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4 Nobel Prizes
5 See also -  Notes -  External links

As MAD Magazine pointed out on its cover for the March 1961 issue, this was the first "upside-up" year—i.e., one in which the numerals that form the year look the same as when the numerals are rotated upside down—since 1881, and the last until 6009.

Events of 1961

January

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.; At the National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho, SL-1, an atomic reactor explodes, killing 3 military technicians.;

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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".; Patrice Lumumba is assassinated.;

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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.; 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.;

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