The temperature on June 17, 1961 was between 13.6 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
January 9 » British authorities announce they have uncovered the Soviet Portland Spy Ring in London.
May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
October 20 » The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
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