What day of the week was May 31, 1961?

The day of the week May 31st, 1961 fell on was a Wednesday.

Walter Little the Canadian politician (b. 1877) died on this day in 1961.

The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa. In Moscow City Court the the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.