1961

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964

1961 by topic:
Subject
Archaeology Architecture Art Aviation Awards Comics Film Literature Poetry Meteorology Music Country Rail transport Radio Science Spaceflight Sports Television
By country
Australia Canada People's Republic of China France Germany India Ireland Iran Israel Kuwait Luxembourg Malaya New Zealand Norway Pakistan Philippines Singapore South Africa Soviet Union Sweden Turkey United Kingdom United States
Leaders
Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders Territorial governors Religious leaders Law
Birth and death categories
Births Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works Introductions

1961 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1961 MCMLXI
Ab urbe condita	2714
Armenian calendar	1410 ԹՎ ՌՆԺ
Assyrian calendar	6711
Bahá'í calendar	117–118
Bengali calendar	1368
Berber calendar	2911
British Regnal year	9 Eliz. 2 – 10 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2505
Burmese calendar	1323
Byzantine calendar	7469–7470
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4657 or 4597 — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4658 or 4598
Coptic calendar	1677–1678
Discordian calendar	3127
Ethiopian calendar	1953–1954
Hebrew calendar	5721–5722
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2017–2018
- Shaka Samvat	1882–1883
- Kali Yuga	5061–5062
Holocene calendar	11961
Igbo calendar	961–962
Iranian calendar	1339–1340
Islamic calendar	1380–1381
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 36 (昭和３６年)
Javanese calendar	1892–1893
Juche calendar	50
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4294
Minguo calendar	ROC 50 民國50年
Nanakshahi calendar	493
Thai solar calendar	2504
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1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) 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. As MAD Magazine pointed out on its cover for the March 1961 issue, this was the first "upside-up" year — i.e., one in which the numerals that form the year look the same as when the numerals are rotated upside down, a strobogrammatic number — since 1881. The next such year will be 6009.