The temperature on July 25, 1961 was between 12.7 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
March 15 » At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
July 20 » French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
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