The temperature on March 17, 1961 was between 3.6 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
July 12 » Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
December 15 » Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
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