Year 1961 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1961

The year 1961 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1961 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
03 May	American scientist Alan Shepard became the first American traveler to go into space.
05 May	Commander Allen Shepard landed in the Atlantic Ocean from his spacecraft.
25 May	US President John F. Kennedy announced financial support to launch the space mission.
28 May	The human rights organization Amnesty International was established.
19 June	Kuwait declared independence from England.
29 June	Renowned freedom fighter, politician and first defense minister Sardar Baldev Singh passed away.
06 July	An explosion in a Portuguese ship near Mozambique killed 300 people.
15 July	Spain accepted equal rights for men and women.
19 July	The film was shown on the plane for the first time.
10 September	The Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test in the Novaya Gemalia region.
11 September	The World Wildlife Fund was established.
18 September	The then Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test at Novaya Gemalya.
27 September	Sierra Leone became the hundredth member of the United Nations.
05 November	The country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York on a visit to America.
15 November	The United Nations prohibits nuclear weapons.
30 November	The then Soviet Union opposed Kuwait's application for UN membership.
04 August	America's first black and 44th President Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
15 December	The Jewish massacre of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, the organizer of the systematic slaughter, was sentenced to death.
22 December	The US conducted a nuclear test in Nevada.
08 January	A referendum was held in France over Algeria's independence. Algeria recorded only 69 percent of the vote in favor.
28 January	The foundation of the first factory of HMT watches was laid in Bangalore.
10 February	Generation of electricity started with the Niagara Falls Hydropower Project in Canada.
15 February	The Boeing 707 aircraft crashed in Belgium killing 73 people.
24 February	The Madras government decided to rename the state to Tamil Nadu.
07 March	Renowned freedom fighter and senior leader Govind Ballabh Pant died.
09 March	The successful launch of the Russian spacecraft Sputnik 9 with 'dummy humans'.
13 March	Two female and three male officers from Britain were accused of spying for Russia. It was said that he was sending the clues of the country to Russia.
13 March	Landslides killed 145 people in the Soviet Union.
27 March	The celebrations of the first World Theater Day began.
08 April	236 people killed when British ship Dara fell into Persian Gulf.
12 April	The Soviet Union sent the first man Yuri Gagarin into space.
27 April	US space agency NASA launched 'Explorer 11' in the Earth's orbit to study gamma rays.
13 January	Former British Navy aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance was commissioned in the Brazilian Navy as Minas Gerais.
09 February	The Beatles first performed at the Kevin Club.
16 March	The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center was officially located in Maryland, US.
09 April	Joseph Gand got status as the first native Roman Catholic priest in Sierra Leone.
11 May	Angelino Solar won the Vilata a Spana bicycle race in 1961.
01 June	The northern part of the British Cameroon Trust Territory was incorporated into the Union of Nigeria according to a referendum.
01 July	Theme park opened on Grand Island near New York.
12 August	The Federal Maritime Commission was established in the United States.
10 September	Alak Apla Kondayamba Vijayaram Palace opened in Sainik School Korukonda.
18 October	The European Social Charter was signed in Turin.
24 November	World Food Program (WFP) was included in the UN's temporary program.
15 December	The first episode was presented in the BBC series, Comedy Playhouse.
03 January	Twenty-five people died in Finland's worst civilian airaccident when Aero Flight 311 crashed near Kvevlax.
17 January	Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the government of Belgium and the United States.
24 January	A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina; one bomb was recovered intact, the other disintegrated.
31 January	Aboard NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2, Ham the Chimp became the first hominid launched into outer space.
13 February	American geode prospectors discovered what they claimed was a500,000-year-old rock with a spark plug encased inside it.
14 February	Lawrencium, the metallic radioactive synthetic element withatomic number 103, was first made at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratoryon the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
16 February	The DuSable Museum, the first museum dedicated to the study andconservation of African American history, culture, and art, waschartered.
03 April	The occupation of an individual leadbutter, which has been extinct for more than 50 years, was discovered in New South Wales, Australia.
12 April	Abostoch 3ka-3, Soviet Cosmonot Yuri Gagarin became the first to enter outskirts to complete an orbit in 108 minutes time.
17 April	The armed Cuba of the Cuba, supported by the CIA, was infiltrating the Gulf of Cuba, with the aim of overthrowing Castro excluded by Cuba.
23 April	In the midst of the Algerian war, French President Charles Degole gave a military speech, calling military personnel and locals to oppose the attempt of coup against them.
27 April	Milton Margai took over from the United Kingdom as the first Prime Minister of Sierra Leon over the country's independence.
04 May	The Civil Rights Activist (Core) of the Congress's racial equality (Core) organized the first Freedom Ride of inter-state buses in different southern United States on May 4, 1961, in which the challenge of local laws and customs implementing seating isolation was given.
05 May	Project Mercury-Aboard The American Spacecraft Freedom 7, Alansepard created a sub-sequence flight, which became the second person at the exterior location.
09 May	In a speech by the National Association of Broadcasters, FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow described commercial television programming as 'huge barren land'.
14 May	In Aniston, Alabama, America, a crowd of Ku Cluks Clanmen attacked buses from Freedom Riders, riding interstate buses in mixed racial groups to challenge local separation laws.
16 May	The Military Revolution Committee led by Park Chung-Hi launched a bloodless coup against the government of Bo-Sion to end the second Republic of South Korea.
21 May	John Malcolm Patterson, the governor of Alabama in the United States, declared martial law on May 21, 1961, in an attempt to restore order following the outbreak of riots during the American Civil Rights Movement.
25 May	During a speech for a joint session of the United Statescongs, US President John F. Kennedy (goal, before a man to land and return to the moon, with the target, with the Apolia Space Program (Lyrical) Announced his support for the Earth safely.
30 May	Dominican Strong Rafael Truzilo was ambushed by a group of generals.
31 May	The Union of South Africa became the Republic of South Africa. It came into existence with the integration of four separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Natal Colony, Transwal Colony and Orange River Colony.
04 June	US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikitashrushchev met unsuccessfully to discuss several relations between their countries in Vienna.
16 June	Pioneering Russian Ballet Dancer Rudolf Nureev protected the Soviet Union at Paris-Le Borgate Airport with the help of French-Peris and Paris Sochelight Mitra.
19 June	Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom. It was a British protector between 1899 and 1961. After independence, Sheikh Abdullah became al-Salim al-Sabah king.
19 June	Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
30 July	The 43rd PGA Championship has been completed. Jerry Barber shot 277 in Olympia Fields IL. This was a great achievement made by him.
10 September	In the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, the car of German driver Volfgang Wontrips collided with another, causing him to airborn and crash in a side barrier, killing him and 15 viewers.
13 September	After more nuclear tests by Russia, the US will resume underground test of nuclear weapons within the next ten days.
16 September	The United States 'National Hurricane Research Project Safeto weakened Hurricane Eicher by irrigating with silver iodide, establishing the project Stormfuri.
18 September	The route to interact on the ceasefire between Katanga soldiers and United Nations forces crashed under mysterious circumstances near Nidra Rhodsodia carrying the aircraft carrying UN Secretary -General Dagahmarskzold, killing him and the other 15 people.
02 October	Despite the strong resistance of the US armed forces, the Defense Intelligence Agency (Seal Picture) was formed, which became the country's major global military espionage organization.
06 October	President John F. Kennedy recommended the construction of bomb shelters to protect American families from nuclear collapse in nuclear war incidents.
20 October	The Soviet Union conducted the first armed test of a ballistic missile to be launched from a submarine, launching R -13 from a golf classusmerrin.
30 October	The world's largest bombings have been exploded by the Soviet Union, which is about 4,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
30 October	The Soviet hydrogen bomb Zar Bom, the largest atomic vanwar, which was installed on the Novaya Jemlya Island in the Arcticon as a test.
04 December	The National Health Service has provided an oral contraceptive to the contraceptive pill to the people.
15 December	Former Nazi leader Adolf Ichman was sentenced to death after being convicted of fifteen criminal charges, including war crime and crime against humanity.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
24 June	India's first indigenous HF24 supersonic fighter aircraft took off.
02 October	The Shipping Corporation of India was formed in the present economic capital of India (Bombay now Mumbai).
20 October	Birja Sankar Guha, a physical anthropologist and the first director of the Anthropological Survey of India, died in Ghatshila Bihar.
29 November	Yuri Gagarin, the world's first astronaut, came to India.
11 August	Dadar Nagar Haveli was merged with India and made into a Union Territory. Like Goa, this area had been in the Portuguese colony for many years.
19 December	Goa gained independence from slavery in Portugal. Indian troops entered the border of Goa under Operation Vijay.
04 March	India's first aircraft carrier warship INS Vikrant was deployed.
06 March	India's first financial daily newspaper 'The Economic Times' was launched by the Times of India Group in Bombay.
05 April	The first "Indian Drugs and Pharmaceutical Limited Company" sponsored by the Government of India was established.
17 June	The HF-24 Marut supersonic fighter designed by the German engineer Curt Tank made his first flight. Hindustan Aeronautics HF -24 Marut was an Indian fighter -bombary aircraft of the 1960s. It was the first jet aircraft in India.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
24 November	Arundhati Roy / Author / India
01 January	N. Biren Singh / Politician / India
04 August	Bhagyashree Thipsay / Chess Player / India
04 April	Guddi Maruti / Actress / India
05 June	Ramesh Krishnan / Tennis Player / India
06 July	Vandana Chavan / Politician / India
11 August	Sunil Shetty / Actor / India
12 July	Shiva Rajkumar / Actor / India
14 May	Pamela Chaudry Singh / Photographer / India
14 October	Parmeet Sethi / Actor / India
15 August	Suhasini Maniratnam / Actress / India
16 April	Jarbom Gamlin / Politician / India
17 April	Geet Sethi / Player / India
19 July	Harsha Bhogle / Author / India
19 October	Sunny Deol / Actor / India
21 August	V. B. Chandrasekhar / Cricketer / India
23 July	Milind Gunaji / Actor / India
24 November	Arundhati Roy / Author / India
24 November	Arundhati Roy / Writer / India
28 August	Deepak Tijori / Actor / India
28 June	Raj Kanwar / Director / India

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