Since May 1961 passed approximately Seven Hundred and Fifty-Five months (754.9). This May started with Monday (18. week) and ended with Wednesday (22. week). This May had 31 days and 4 Sundays. On bottom of the page you can find calendar for May 1961.
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We found 84 events occured in May month in 1961.
• 1961. May 1 (Category: Births), Clint Malarchuk, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961. May 1 (Category: Births), Marilyn Milian, American judge
• 1961. May 1 (Category: Events), The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
• 1961. May 2 (Category: Births), Phil Vickery, English chef
• 1961. May 2 (Category: Births), Sophie Thibault, Canadian journalist and reporter
• 1961. May 2 (Category: Births), Steve James, English snooker player
• 1961. May 3 (Category: Births), David Vitter, American politician
• 1961. May 3 (Category: Births), Joe Murray, American cartoonist
• 1961. May 3 (Category: Births), Leyla Zana, Kurdish politician
• 1961. May 3 (Category: Births), Steve McClaren, English football manager
• 1961. May 4 (Category: Births), Jay Aston, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Bucks Fizz)
• 1961. May 4 (Category: Births), Luis Herrera, Colombian cyclist
• 1961. May 4 (Category: Deaths), Anita Stewart, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1961. May 4 (Category: Events), American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
• 1961. May 5 (Category: Births), Hiroshi Hase, Japanese wrestler and politician
• 1961. May 5 (Category: Events), The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
• 1961. May 6 (Category: Births), George Clooney, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961. May 6 (Category: Births), Gina Riley, Australian actress, writer, singer and comedian
• 1961. May 6 (Category: Deaths), Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1961. May 7 (Category: Births), Hans-Peter Bartels, German politician
• 1961. May 7 (Category: Births), Phil Campbell, English guitarist and songwriter (Motörhead and Persian Risk)
• 1961. May 8 (Category: Births), Akira Taue, Japanese wrestler
• 1961. May 8 (Category: Births), David Winning, Canadian director
• 1961. May 8 (Category: Births), Janet McTeer, English actress
• 1961. May 9 (Category: Births), Sean Altman, American singer-songwriter and musician (Rockapella)
• 1961. May 9 (Category: Events), Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
• 1961. May 10 (Category: Births), Candi Kubeck, American pilot of Valujet Flight 592 (d. 1996)
• 1961. May 10 (Category: Births), Danny Carey, American drummer and songwriter (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus, Volto!, Green Jellÿ, and Zaum)
• 1961. May 10 (Category: Births), Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress
• 1961. May 10 (Category: Births), Randy Cunneyworth, Canadian ice hockey coach
• 1961. May 11 (Category: Births), Luis Felipe, Cuban gangster, founder of the Latin Kings
• 1961. May 12 (Category: Births), Billy Duffy, English guitarist and songwriter (The Cult, Theatre of Hate, and The Nosebleeds)
• 1961. May 12 (Category: Births), Bruce McCulloch, Canadian actor
• 1961. May 12 (Category: Births), Lar Park Lincoln, American actress
• 1961. May 12 (Category: Births), Paul Begala, American political commentator
• 1961. May 12 (Category: Births), Thomas Dooley, German-American soccer player
• 1961. May 13 (Category: Births), Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
• 1961. May 13 (Category: Deaths), Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1961. May 14 (Category: Births), Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey coach
• 1961. May 14 (Category: Births), David Quantick, English writer
• 1961. May 14 (Category: Births), Jean Leloup, French-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author
• 1961. May 14 (Category: Births), Tim Roth, English actor and director
• 1961. May 14 (Category: Births), Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
• 1961. May 14 (Category: Events), American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
• 1961. May 15 (Category: Births), Katrin Cartlidge, English actress (d. 2002)
• 1961. May 15 (Category: Births), Melle Mel, American rapper and songwriter (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)
• 1961. May 16 (Category: Births), Charles Wright, American wrestler
• 1961. May 16 (Category: Births), Kevin McDonald, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1961. May 16 (Category: Deaths), George A. Malcolm, American jurist and educator (b. 1881)
• 1961. May 16 (Category: Events), Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
• 1961. May 17 (Category: Births), Enya, Irish singer-songwriter and producer (Clannad)
• 1961. May 18 (Category: Births), Jim Bowden, American sportscaster
• 1961. May 19 (Category: Births), Gregory Poirier, American screenwriter and director
• 1961. May 19 (Category: Births), Wayne Van Dorp, Dutch-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961. May 19 (Category: Events), 11 Bengali martyrs gave up their life in a police firing in Silchar Railway Station, Assam, while demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
• 1961. May 19 (Category: Events), Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
• 1961. May 20 (Category: Births), Clive Allen, English footballer
• 1961. May 20 (Category: Deaths), Josef Priller, German nazi military aviator (b. 1915)
• 1961. May 21 (Category: Events), American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
• 1961. May 22 (Category: Births), Ann Cusack, American actress
• 1961. May 22 (Category: Births), Mike Breen, American sportscaster
• 1961. May 22 (Category: Events), An Earthquake rocks New South Wales.
• 1961. May 23 (Category: Births), Karen Duffy, American actress
• 1961. May 24 (Category: Births), Alain Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961. May 24 (Category: Events), American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
• 1961. May 24 (Category: Events), Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
• 1961. May 25 (Category: Events), Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
• 1961. May 26 (Category: Births), Tarsem Singh, Indian director
• 1961. May 27 (Category: Births), José Luíz Barbosa, Brazilian runner
• 1961. May 27 (Category: Births), Peri Gilpin, American actress
• 1961. May 28 (Category: Births), Michelle Collins, English actress
• 1961. May 28 (Category: Events), Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
• 1961. May 29 (Category: Births), Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist
• 1961. May 30 (Category: Births), Bob Yari, Iranian-American film producer
• 1961. May 30 (Category: Births), Harry Enfield, English comedian, actor, writer, and director
• 1961. May 30 (Category: Births), Ralph Carter, American actor
• 1961. May 30 (Category: Deaths), Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
• 1961. May 30 (Category: Events), Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
• 1961. May 31 (Category: Births), Justin Madden, Australian footballer and politician
• 1961. May 31 (Category: Births), Lea Thompson, American actress
• 1961. May 31 (Category: Births), Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961. May 31 (Category: Deaths), Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
• 1961. May 31 (Category: Events), In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
• 1961. May 31 (Category: Events), The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
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