What's special about the year 1961?
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Reads the same upside down as right side up
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Um, that would be January 25, 1960.
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THE HAD THEIR INDEPENDENCE ON OCT. 1, 1960
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1953-1961 Dwight Eisenhower
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The year was the same read upside down and right side up.  Which won't happen again until 6009.
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Hi maria&tony,\n1998 was the year and the date I believe is Oct 6th. Good Luck: Blueladybug
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Sometime in the 20th century
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There are 52 weeks in a year
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In the Uk it was 1972
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The 1960's. It was a very exciting time. Social changes and political upheaval! I would've liked to be a hippie, minus the drugs.
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ye i agree about the 1960's, think that would be pretty fun. I would also like 2 go back and see the ancient egyptians
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January\nJanuary 1 - CSIRO scientist Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler are found dead, believed to have been poisoned, in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney. Known as the Bogle-Chandler case. \nJanuary 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. \nJanuary 14 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. \nJanuary 22 - Elysée treaty between France and Germany \nJanuary 28 - Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson College in South Carolina, the last US state to hold out against racial integration \nJanuary 29 - Charles De Gaulle vetos United Kingdom's entry into the EEC
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It was first played in 1967, and this year's is being played in 2006. Subtract 1966 from 2006, and 40 is your answer.
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NICE question. The 1960's.
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January 6, 1759\n\nIt saddens me that people can answer "I don't know" and get two points.\n\nHope this helps.
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1960 \n\nThe first debate for a presidential election was televised.  It was between Senator John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.  Nikon seemed nervous, but Kennedy stood tall.  The debate on TV changed many people's minds about Kennedy.  \nThis year NASA sent up ECHO, the first communications satellite to be seen with the naked eye.  \nAmerican "U2" spy plane shot down over the USSR. \nThe Olympic Games were held in Rome and Wilma Rudolf won three gold medals. \n1961 \n\nJohn F Kennedy moves into the White House.  He gives his famous speech - "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."  \nThe soviets have sent the first man into space and the Americans need a man in space, too.  The event came on May 5, 1961.  Alan Shepard was sent to space in the "Freedom 7".  On May 25, Kennedy wanted to have a man on the moon and back before the decade was over.  \n1962 \n\nJohn Glenn became the first man to orbit the earth - 3 times.  It was a five hour flight.  \nRachel Carson, a scientist and writer, warned that our earth would die of pollution and chemicals.  Especially chemicals that were developed to kill bad insects.  DDT was a real bad chemical.  It killed bad insects, along with good insects, along with plants, along with animals.  She wrote the book Silent Spring with a warning.  At least five states banned DDT.  \n1963 \n\nMartin Luther King Jr. made the speech, "I have a Dream" on August 28, 1963.  More than 200,000 peaceful demonstrators came to Washington DC to demand equal rights for Black and Whites.  Part of the speech was - "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…"  \nPresident Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22.  Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was never sent to trial.  While being moved by police to a different jail, a man named Jack Ruby shot Oswald.  Who killed President Kennedy nobody knows for sure.  \n1964 \n\nThe Beatles, a British rock and roll band became VERY popular.  The "Fab Four", John, Paul, George, and Ringo, were played on radio stations all over the world.  They were seen on the "Ed Sullivan Show".  They performed concerts that were quickly sold out.  All the frenzy over the group became known as "Beatlemania", which was only the beginning.  \nThis was the first year the cigarette boxes had a warning printed on it "Smoking can be hazardous to your health".  It had not occurred to the US government to give the warning that smoking lead to cancer and lung problems.  \nThe first Civil Rights bill was passed to stop racial discrimination.  \n1965 \n\nPresident Johnson ordered bombing raids on North Vietnam and Americans begin protesting the war.  \nThe world's first roofed stadium was built, the Houston Astrodome.  \n1966 \n\nWalt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse and a Pioneer of animated films, died of cancer on December 15, 1966, but his legend lives on.  \n1967 \n\nThe first heart transplant was performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, South Africa.  \n1968 \n\nCivil Rights Leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.  Two months later, Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's brother was assassinated, too.  Both were civil rights leaders.  \nOn November 5, 1968, Shirley Chisholm was elected America's first black woman to Congress.  \n1969 \n\nNearly half a million people headed over to a 600 acre farm in New York for the Woodstock Festival.  Many top rock musicians were there.  It lasted three days, a weekend of music, love and peace.  \nJuly 20, 1969, 4:18 p.m., one of the biggest events of history happened.  Apollo 11 landed on the moon, astronauts aboard.  Neil Armstrong's famous speech for the historical steps "That's one small step for man, one giant leap f
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While maybe as far into history as w are there may not be much that hasn't already been said in one form or another.  John F. Kennedy made those words as you have stated famous in his Inaugural Address January 20, 1961.  I watched this moment in history as it happened as did most everyone my age.  He coined the phrase as stated, it may not have been an original idea, but he was the one who said as he did.