The temperature on January 6, 1961 was between 2.6 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 12.5 mm of rain during 8.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
August 25 » President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
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