Being born under the Chinese Zodiac Sign Ox you will have qualities such as patience, being taciturn and motivate others to reach higher levels of confidence. Eccentric by nature Oxes sometimes anger too easily. Most have strong opinions coupled with fierce tempers. They don't speak often but when they do it's quite eloquent. Oxes are strong mentally and physically. In everyday life Oxes are easygoing. Stubborness often brings them more harm than good. Failing or being opposed in their beliefs does not sit well for an Ox.
Astrology character and traits of Ox sign: Calm, relaxed, patient, self-assured, sincere, brave, intelligent, sociable, alert, can anger easily, bigoted and resolute.
1961 Zodiac Sign Ox Compatibility
Chinese Zodiac Signs are based upon a twelve year lunar cycle. Your zodiac animal sign is determined by your birthday year. If you were born in 1961 then your astrological sign is Ox. There are twelve animal signs. Each animal has it's own attributes and personality traits the Chinese believe comprise the nature of each particular animal.
Best matches for Zodiac Sign Ox are: Rat, Rooster, Pig, Snake
Bad matches for Zodiac Sign Ox are: Goat, Horse, Dog
Historical Events for the Year 1961
3rd January Star Sign » A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
17th January Star Sign » 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.
21st January Star Sign » 435 workers are buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State collapses.
23rd January Star Sign » 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.
24th January Star Sign » 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.
25th January Star Sign » In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live President of the United States e.g presidential television news conference.
26th January Star Sign » 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.
27th January Star Sign » Soviet Union called Soviet submarine 'Soviet submarine S-80 e.g S-80' sinks with all hands lost.
31st January Star Sign » Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 Ham the Chimp travels into space science named outer space.
3rd February Star Sign » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, Baixa de Cassanje revolt e.g turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
13th February Star Sign » An allegedly Coso artifact e.g 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, United States or US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
14th February Star Sign » Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California, Berkeley e.g University of California.
15th February Star Sign » Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team, several coaches and family members.
16th February » The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
27th February Star Sign » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1st March Star Sign » President of the United States known as American President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1st March » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
9th March Star Sign » Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich (Vostok programme) e.g Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
12th March Star Sign » First Winter Ascent of the Eiger north face 1960s or Eiger north face.
29th March Star Sign » The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
30th March Star Sign » The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
8th April Star Sign » A large explosion on board the MV known as Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
9th April Star Sign » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
12th April Star Sign » The Soviet Union known as Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok spacecraft known as Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
17th April Star Sign » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the Central Intelligence Agency called CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
18th April Star Sign » The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
18th April » Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas e.g CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portugal named Portuguese colonial rule.
20th April Star Sign » Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
25th April Star Sign » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
27th April Star Sign » Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Heads of Government of Sierra Leone called Prime Minister.
30th April Star Sign » 'Soviet submarine K-19 K-19', the first Soviet Union Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with Submarine-launched ballistic missile nuclear missiles, is ship commissioning commissioned.
1st May Star Sign » The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
4th May Star Sign » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the Southern United States known as South.
5th May Star Sign » Project Mercury called The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
9th May Star Sign » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
14th May Star Sign » 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.
19th May Star Sign » 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).
19th May » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement Legacy e.g Bengali Language Movement.
21st May Star Sign » African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) e.g American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
22nd May Star Sign » An 1961 New South Wales earthquake e.g earthquake rocks New South Wales.
24th May Star Sign » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
24th May » Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
25th May Star Sign » Apollo program: The President of the United States named U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the United States Congress called Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the
25th May » The Bukit Ho Swee Fire, the biggest fire in Singapore history.
30th May Star Sign » The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
31st May Star Sign » The Union of South Africa becomes the South Africa named Republic of South Africa.
31st May » In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko case known as Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinism or Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
4th June Star Sign » In the Vienna summit, the Soviet Union or Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis of 1961 e.g Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
23rd June Star Sign » Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.
9th July Star Sign » Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.
12th July Star Sign » Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla Dam e.g Khadakwasla and Panshet Dam named Panshet dams. Half of Pune is submerged, more than 100,000 families need to be relocated and the death toll exceeds 2,000.
19th July Star Sign » Tunisia Bizerte crisis or imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
20th July Star Sign » Military of France called French military forces break the Tunisian Bizerte crisis named siege of Bizerte.
21st July Star Sign » Project Mercury or Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission Gus Grissom piloting' Mercury-Redstone 4 e.g Liberty Bell 7' becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
23rd July Star Sign » The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
25th July Star Sign » In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
31st July Star Sign » At Fenway Park in Boston known as Boston, Massachusetts, the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game or All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
3rd August Star Sign » The New Democratic Party (Canada) known as New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.
10th August Star Sign » First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the United States Army or U.S. Army.
11th August Star Sign » The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra DNH e.g Dadra and Nagar Haveli DNH called Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
15th August Star Sign » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
21st August Star Sign » Motown releases what would be its first 1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
10th September Star Sign » 1961 Italian Grand Prix called Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Scuderia Ferrari known as Ferrari.
11th September Star Sign » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
16th September Star Sign » The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
16th September » Typhoon Nancy (1961) or Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
18th September Star Sign » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga Province or Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
20th September Star Sign » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes List of Prime Ministers of Greece called Prime Minister of Greece.
28th September Star Sign » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
1st October Star Sign » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Cameroon or Federal Republic of Cameroon.
3rd October Star Sign » 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' premieres on CBS known as CBS-TV in the United States.
17th October Star Sign » Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are Paris massacre of 1961 known as massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of former Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.
20th October Star Sign » The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 (missile) called R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
27th October Star Sign » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in SA-1 (Apollo) named Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
27th October » Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.
30th October Star Sign » Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
1st November Star Sign » 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
11th November Star Sign » Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) or the Congo as a part of the United Nations Operation in the Congo named UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
18th November Star Sign » United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
29th November Star Sign » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission Enos (chimpanzee) known as Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
2nd December Star Sign » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxism–Leninism or Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
15th December Star Sign » Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Judicial system of Israel or Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organizati
17th December Star Sign » Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói known as Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
19th December Star Sign » India 1961 Indian annexation of Goa known as annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.