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.

Important Historical Events of the Year 1961 in World ⚡

Event__DateIncident/Event
03 MayAmerican scientist Alan Shepard became the first American traveler to go into space.
05 MayCommander Allen Shepard landed in the Atlantic Ocean from his spacecraft.
25 MayUS President John F. Kennedy announced financial support to launch the space mission.
28 MayThe human rights organization Amnesty International was established.
19 JuneKuwait declared independence from England.
29 JuneRenowned freedom fighter, politician and first defense minister Sardar Baldev Singh passed away.
06 JulyAn explosion in a Portuguese ship near Mozambique killed 300 people.
15 JulySpain accepted equal rights for men and women.
19 JulyThe film was shown on the plane for the first time.
10 SeptemberThe Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test in the Novaya Gemalia region.
11 SeptemberThe World Wildlife Fund was established.
18 SeptemberThe then Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test at Novaya Gemalya.
27 SeptemberSierra Leone became the hundredth member of the United Nations.
05 NovemberThe country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York on a visit to America.
15 NovemberThe United Nations prohibits nuclear weapons.
30 NovemberThe then Soviet Union opposed Kuwait's application for UN membership.
04 AugustAmerica's first black and 44th President Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
15 DecemberThe Jewish massacre of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, the organizer of the systematic slaughter, was sentenced to death.
22 DecemberThe US conducted a nuclear test in Nevada.
08 JanuaryA referendum was held in France over Algeria's independence. Algeria recorded only 69 percent of the vote in favor.
28 JanuaryThe foundation of the first factory of HMT watches was laid in Bangalore.
10 FebruaryGeneration of electricity started with the Niagara Falls Hydropower Project in Canada.
15 FebruaryThe Boeing 707 aircraft crashed in Belgium killing 73 people.
24 FebruaryThe Madras government decided to rename the state to Tamil Nadu.
07 MarchRenowned freedom fighter and senior leader Govind Ballabh Pant died.
09 MarchThe successful launch of the Russian spacecraft Sputnik 9 with 'dummy humans'.
13 MarchTwo 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 MarchLandslides killed 145 people in the Soviet Union.
27 MarchThe celebrations of the first World Theater Day began.
08 April236 people killed when British ship Dara fell into Persian Gulf.
12 AprilThe Soviet Union sent the first man Yuri Gagarin into space.
27 AprilUS space agency NASA launched 'Explorer 11' in the Earth's orbit to study gamma rays.
13 JanuaryFormer British Navy aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance was commissioned in the Brazilian Navy as Minas Gerais.
09 FebruaryThe Beatles first performed at the Kevin Club.
16 MarchThe NASA Goddard Space Flight Center was officially located in Maryland, US.
09 AprilJoseph Gand got status as the first native Roman Catholic priest in Sierra Leone.
11 MayAngelino Solar won the Vilata a Spana bicycle race in 1961.
01 JuneThe northern part of the British Cameroon Trust Territory was incorporated into the Union of Nigeria according to a referendum.
01 JulyTheme park opened on Grand Island near New York.
12 AugustThe Federal Maritime Commission was established in the United States.
10 SeptemberAlak Apla Kondayamba Vijayaram Palace opened in Sainik School Korukonda.
18 OctoberThe European Social Charter was signed in Turin.
24 NovemberWorld Food Program (WFP) was included in the UN's temporary program.
15 DecemberThe first episode was presented in the BBC series, Comedy Playhouse.
03 JanuaryTwenty-five people died in Finland's worst civilian airaccident when Aero Flight 311 crashed near Kvevlax.
17 JanuaryFormer Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the government of Belgium and the United States.
24 JanuaryA 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 JanuaryAboard NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2, Ham the Chimp became the first hominid launched into outer space.
13 FebruaryAmerican geode prospectors discovered what they claimed was a500,000-year-old rock with a spark plug encased inside it.
14 FebruaryLawrencium, 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 FebruaryThe DuSable Museum, the first museum dedicated to the study andconservation of African American history, culture, and art, waschartered.
03 AprilThe occupation of an individual leadbutter, which has been extinct for more than 50 years, was discovered in New South Wales, Australia.
12 AprilAbostoch 3ka-3, Soviet Cosmonot Yuri Gagarin became the first to enter outskirts to complete an orbit in 108 minutes time.
17 AprilThe 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 AprilIn 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 AprilMilton Margai took over from the United Kingdom as the first Prime Minister of Sierra Leon over the country's independence.
04 MayThe 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 MayProject Mercury-Aboard The American Spacecraft Freedom 7, Alansepard created a sub-sequence flight, which became the second person at the exterior location.
09 MayIn a speech by the National Association of Broadcasters, FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow described commercial television programming as 'huge barren land'.
14 MayIn 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 MayThe 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 MayJohn 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 MayDuring 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 MayDominican Strong Rafael Truzilo was ambushed by a group of generals.
31 MayThe 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 JuneUS President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikitashrushchev met unsuccessfully to discuss several relations between their countries in Vienna.
16 JunePioneering 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 JuneKuwait 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 JuneKuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
30 JulyThe 43rd PGA Championship has been completed. Jerry Barber shot 277 in Olympia Fields IL. This was a great achievement made by him.
10 SeptemberIn 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 SeptemberAfter more nuclear tests by Russia, the US will resume underground test of nuclear weapons within the next ten days.
16 SeptemberThe United States 'National Hurricane Research Project Safeto weakened Hurricane Eicher by irrigating with silver iodide, establishing the project Stormfuri.
18 SeptemberThe 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 OctoberDespite 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 OctoberPresident John F. Kennedy recommended the construction of bomb shelters to protect American families from nuclear collapse in nuclear war incidents.
20 OctoberThe 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 OctoberThe 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 OctoberThe Soviet hydrogen bomb Zar Bom, the largest atomic vanwar, which was installed on the Novaya Jemlya Island in the Arcticon as a test.
04 DecemberThe National Health Service has provided an oral contraceptive to the contraceptive pill to the people.
15 DecemberFormer Nazi leader Adolf Ichman was sentenced to death after being convicted of fifteen criminal charges, including war crime and crime against humanity.

Important Historical Events of the Year 1961 in India ⚡

Event__DateIncident/Event
24 JuneIndia's first indigenous HF24 supersonic fighter aircraft took off.
02 OctoberThe Shipping Corporation of India was formed in the present economic capital of India (Bombay now Mumbai).
20 OctoberBirja Sankar Guha, a physical anthropologist and the first director of the Anthropological Survey of India, died in Ghatshila Bihar.
29 NovemberYuri Gagarin, the world's first astronaut, came to India.
11 AugustDadar 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 DecemberGoa gained independence from slavery in Portugal. Indian troops entered the border of Goa under Operation Vijay.
04 MarchIndia's first aircraft carrier warship INS Vikrant was deployed.
06 MarchIndia's first financial daily newspaper 'The Economic Times' was launched by the Times of India Group in Bombay.
05 AprilThe first "Indian Drugs and Pharmaceutical Limited Company" sponsored by the Government of India was established.
17 JuneThe 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.

Famous People's Birthdays in 1961 😀

BirthName/Category/Country
24 NovemberArundhati Roy / Author / India
01 JanuaryN. Biren Singh / Politician / India
04 AugustBhagyashree Thipsay / Chess Player / India
04 AprilGuddi Maruti / Actress / India
05 JuneRamesh Krishnan / Tennis Player / India
06 JulyVandana Chavan / Politician / India
11 AugustSunil Shetty / Actor / India
12 JulyShiva Rajkumar / Actor / India
14 MayPamela Chaudry Singh / Photographer / India
14 OctoberParmeet Sethi / Actor / India
15 AugustSuhasini Maniratnam / Actress / India
16 AprilJarbom Gamlin / Politician / India
17 AprilGeet Sethi / Player / India
19 JulyHarsha Bhogle / Author / India
19 OctoberSunny Deol / Actor / India
21 AugustV. B. Chandrasekhar / Cricketer / India
23 JulyMilind Gunaji / Actor / India
24 NovemberArundhati Roy / Author / India
24 NovemberArundhati Roy / Writer / India
28 AugustDeepak Tijori / Actor / India
28 JuneRaj Kanwar / Director / India

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