January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
Day of death May 30, 1961
The temperature on May 30, 1961 was between 4.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
April 23 » Algiers putsch by French generals.
September 17 » The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
November 21 » The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.
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