1,961
1,961 is a composite number, odd, a calendar year.
Notable events — 1961 AD
- Jan 20 John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th US president.
- Apr 12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space aboard Vostok 1.
- Apr 17 The CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba fails.
- May 5 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space.
- Aug 13 East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall.
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Year facts
- Year type
-
Common year
Standard 365-day year; not divisible by 4 (or divisible by 100 but not 400).
- Days in year
- 365
- ISO weeks
- 52
- Started on
-
Sunday
January 1, 1961
- Ended on
-
Sunday
December 31, 1961
- Friday the 13ths
-
2
2 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Easter Sunday
-
April 2
Sunday, April 2, 1961
- Decade
-
1960s
1960–1969
- Century
-
20th century
1901–2000
- Millennium
-
2nd millennium
1001–2000
- Years ago
-
65
65 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5721 / 5722 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
1380 / 1381 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Metal zodiac:Ox
Sexagenary cycle position 38 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
2504 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
1339 / 1340 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
1953 / 1954 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1883 / 1882 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
- Japanese
-
Shōwa 36
Reign-era counting from the start of each emperor's reign.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 37 × 53
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Representations
- In words
- one thousand nine hundred sixty-one
- Ordinal
- 1961st
- Roman numeral
- MCMLXI
- Binary
- 11110101001
- Octal
- 3651
- Hexadecimal
- 0x7A9
- Base64
- B6k=
- One's complement
- 63,574 (16-bit)
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵αϡξαʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋤·𝋲·𝋡
- Chinese
- 一千九百六十一
- Chinese (financial)
- 壹仟玖佰陸拾壹
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 1,961 = 5
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 1,961 = 7
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 1,961 = 0
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 1,961 = 5
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 1,961 = 7
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 1,961 = 5
Also seen as
UTF-8 encoding: DE A9 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.7.169.
- Address
- 0.0.7.169
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.7.169
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
The digit sequence 1961 first appears in π at position 2,997 of the decimal expansion (the 2,997ordinal-suffix:th digit after the integer 3).
Search range: the first 1,000,000 fractional digits of π. Any 6-digit-or-shorter string is virtually guaranteed to appear in there — the more interesting signal is the position.