The temperature on November 7, 1961 was between -4 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
January 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
July 4 » On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.
September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
Day of death November 12, 1961
The temperature on November 12, 1961 was between 4.2 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
April 11 » The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
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.
September 16 » Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
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