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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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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.
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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 year9 Eliz. 2  10 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2505
Burmese calendar1323
Byzantine calendar7469–7470
Chinese calendar庚子年 (Metal Rat)
4657 or 4597
     to 
辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
4658 or 4598
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
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