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Month January 1961 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

  • January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).

    January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 1961

  • Day of Week 3rd » A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
  • Day of Week 17th » Former Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) called Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
  • Day of Week 21st » 435 workers are buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State collapses.
  • Day of Week 23rd » The Portugal Portuguese luxury cruise ship 'Santa Maria' is Santa Maria hijacking hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo (Portugal) Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
  • Day of Week 24th » 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
  • Day of Week 25th » In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live President of the United States e.g presidential television news conference.
  • Day of Week 26th » John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds the appointment of Physician to the President.
  • Day of Week 27th » Soviet Union called Soviet submarine 'Soviet submarine S-80 e.g S-80' sinks with all hands lost.
  • Day of Week 31st » Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 Ham the Chimp travels into space science named outer space.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1961

  • 1st » Sergei Babayan, Armenian-American pianist
  • 1st » Sam Backo, Australian rugby player
  • 1st » Sam Palahnuk, American video game designer
  • 1st » Fiona Phillips, British journalist
  • 2nd » Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
  • 2nd » IJsbrand Chardon, Dutch horse rider
  • 2nd » Todd Haynes, American director
  • 2nd » Craig James (American football) known as Craig James, American football player
  • 2nd » Robert Wexler, American lawyer and politician
  • 4th » Lee Curreri, American actor and pianist
  • 4th » Sidney Green (basketball) called Sidney Green, American basketball player
  • 5th » Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 6th » Georges Jobé, Belgian motocross racer (d. 2012)
  • 7th » Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
  • 7th » Andrew Thomson (Australian politician) named Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
  • 7th » John Thune, American politician
  • 8th » Keith Arkell, English chess player
  • 8th » Calvin Smith, American sprinter
  • 9th » Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter and producer
  • 9th » Al Jean, American screenwriter and producer
  • 10th » Steve Hamilton (author) called Steve Hamilton, American author
  • 10th » Evan Handler, American actor
  • 10th » Janet Jones, American actress
  • 10th » Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian-American violinist, author, and educator
  • 11th » Jasper Fforde, English author
  • 11th » Karl von Habsburg, German-Austrian son of Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen
  • 11th » Eva O, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Christian Death, Shadow Project and Super Heroines)
  • 11th » Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish race car driver (d. 1989)
  • 12th » Simon Russell Beale, English actor
  • 12th » Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Pakistani-Canadian physician and terrorist
  • 13th » Jeremy Bamber, English murderer
  • 13th » Wayne Coyne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Flaming Lips)
  • 13th » Kelly Hrudey, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 13th » Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress and producer
  • 13th » Suggs (singer) called Suggs, English singer-songwriter and actor (Madness (band) or Madness)
  • 14th » Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (d. 1996)
  • 14th » Mike Tramp, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist (White Lion and Freak of Nature (band) e.g Freak of Nature)
  • 15th » Serhiy N. Morozov, Ukrainian footballer
  • 15th » Yves Pelletier, Canadian actor and director
  • 16th » Ronnie Lee Gardner, American criminal (d. 2010)
  • 16th » Paul Raven (musician) Paul Raven, English bass player (Killing Joke, Prong (band) Prong, Godflesh, Zilch (band) Zilch, Society 1, and Ministry (band) Ministry) (d. 2007)
  • 17th » Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian chess player
  • 17th » Brian Helgeland, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 19th » William Ragsdale, American actor
  • 19th » Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer, co-founded Red or Dead
  • 22nd » Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (d. 2010)
  • 22nd » Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter
  • 23rd » Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Indonesian-Singaporean criminal
  • 24th » Guido Buchwald, German footballer
  • 24th » Nastassja Kinski, German-American actress
  • 24th » Vince Russo, American wrestling manager and journalist
  • 24th » William Van Dijck, Belgian horse racer
  • 25th » Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
  • 25th » Willie Revillame, Filipino actor, singer, and game show host
  • 26th » Li Cunxin (dancer) e.g Li Cunxin, Chinese-Australian ballet dancer
  • 26th » Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 26th » Tom Keifer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cinderella (band) called Cinderella)
  • 26th » Mark Urban, English journalist and author
  • 27th » Zarganar, Burmese comedian, actor, and director
  • 27th » Dina Bonnevie, Filipino actress
  • 27th » Gillian Gilbert, English keyboard player and singer (New Order and The Other Two)
  • 27th » Narciso Rodriguez, American fashion designer
  • 27th » Margo Timmins, Canadian singer-songwriter (Cowboy Junkies)
  • 27th » Karen Velez, American model
  • 28th » Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic author
  • 28th » Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 29th » Mike Aldrete, American baseball player
  • 29th » Petra Thümer, German swimmer
  • 30th » Dexter Scott King, American actor
  • 31st » Elizabeth Barker, Baroness Barker, English politician
  • 31st » Lloyd Cole, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions)
  • 31st » Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer and judge

Famous Deaths for January 1961

  • 4th » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
  • 8th » Schoolboy Rowe, American baseball player (b. 1910)
  • 9th » Emily Greene Balch, American economist, Nobel Peace Prize known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
  • 10th » Dashiell Hammett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1894)
  • 13th » Herman Glass, American gymnast (b. 1880)
  • 14th » Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
  • 14th » Herman (Aav) or Herman, Estonian-Finnish clergyman (b. 1878)
  • 16th » Max Schöne, German swimmer (b. 1880)
  • 17th » Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
  • 21st » Blaise Cendrars, Swiss author and poet (b. 1887)
  • 24th » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (b. 1884)
  • 26th » Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)
  • 27th » Bernard Friedberg, Austrian scholar and author (b. 1876)
  • 31st » Krishna Sinha, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)

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