1961

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Clockwise, from top left: The Tsar Bomba was detonated in the Soviet Union, becoming the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated; the Antarctic Treaty is signed; Portuguese guerilla soldiers during the Portuguese Colonial War in Portugal's colonies in Africa; a model of the Vostok 1, in which Yuri Gagarin stayed in during the first manned flight to space; a memorial following a massacre in Paris, in which 300 Algerians were killed in the city during the Algerian War; an Indian soldier during the annexation of Goa by India; American planes flying into the Bay of Pigs during the Bay of Pigs invasion; tensions in Berlin reached a climax, culminating in the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
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1961 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1961
MCMLXI
Ab urbe condita2714
Armenian calendar1410
ԹՎ ՌՆԺ
Assyrian calendar6711
Baháʼí calendar117–118
Balinese saka calendar1882–1883
Bengali calendar1368
Berber calendar2911
British Regnal yearEliz. 2 – 10 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2505
Burmese calendar1323
Byzantine calendar7469–7470
Chinese calendar庚子年 (Metal Rat)
4658 or 4451
    — to —
辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
4659 or 4452
Coptic calendar1677–1678
Discordian calendar3127
Ethiopian calendar1953–1954
Hebrew calendar5721–5722
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2017–2018
 - Shaka Samvat1882–1883
 - Kali Yuga5061–5062
Holocene calendar11961
Igbo calendar961–962
Iranian calendar1339–1340
Islamic calendar1380–1381
Japanese calendarShōwa 36
(昭和36年)
Javanese calendar1892–1893
Juche calendar50
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4294
Minguo calendarROC 50
民國50年
Nanakshahi calendar493
Thai solar calendar2504
Tibetan calendar阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
2087 or 1706 or 934
    — to —
阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
2088 or 1707 or 935

1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1961st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.

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April 12: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to fly in outer space

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Births[edit]

Births
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January[edit]

Gabrielle Carteris
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Wayne Gretzky

February[edit]

Malu Dreyer
David Graeber
Henry Rollins
Mark Latham

March[edit]

Laurel Clark
Kassie DePaiva
Yanis Varoufakis
Amy Sedaris

April[edit]

Eddie Murphy
Vincent Gallo
Robert Carlyle
George Lopez

May[edit]

Joe Murray
George Clooney
John Corbett
Tim Roth
Kevin McDonald

June[edit]

Yevgeny Prigozhin
Sam Harris
Michael J. Fox
Boy George
Bidya Devi Bhandari
Joko Widodo
Ricky Gervais
Iztok Mlakar

July[edit]

Diana, Princess of Wales
Forest Whitaker
António Costa
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Elizabeth McGovern
Milind Gunaji
Woody Harrelson
Gary Cherone
Katherine Kelly Lang
Laurence Fishburne

August[edit]

Barack Obama
Lauren Tom
Mercedes Aráoz
Brad Gilbert
John Key
Koji Kondo
Manuel Merino
Billy Ray Cyrus

September[edit]

Eugenio Derbez
E.G. Daily
Virginia Madsen
Dave Mustaine
Colin McFarlane
James Gandolfini
Chi McBride
Julia Gillard

October[edit]

Jodi Benson
Rachel De Thame
Kim Wayans
Dylan McDermott
Randy Jackson
Peter Jackson

November[edit]

Ralph Macchio
Nadia Comăneci
Meg Ryan
Mariel Hemingway

December[edit]

Matthew Waterhouse
Ilham Aliyev

Full date unknown[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Erwin Schrödinger
Patrice Lumumba
Carlos Luz
Mohammed V of Morocco
Oswald Rayner
Victor d'Arcy
Carlos Duarte Costa
Eliseo Mouriño
Zog I of Albania
Padma Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana
Mbarek Bekkay
Robert Garrett
Gary Cooper
Rafael Trujillo
Carl Jung
Jeff Chandler
Nasuhi al-Bukhari
Ernest Hemingway
Ty Cobb
Sir Sidney Holland
Adnan Menderes
Percy Chapman
Dag Hammarskjöld
Marion Davies
Chico Marx
Sergio Osmeña
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá
Sir Earle Page
Kurt Meyer

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Nobel Prizes[edit]

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