What day of the week was October 30, 1961?

The day of the week October 30th, 1961 fell on was a Monday.

There were 56 days until Christmas.

Giorgos Papakonstantinou the Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance was born on 30 October in 1961.

Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield the it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise. Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts" the it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.