The temperature on August 20, 1961 was between 10.2 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Cold War: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
January 27 » The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
April 12 » Cold War: Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
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