The temperature on December 6, 1961 was between 0.6 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
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 27 » The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
April 12 » Cold War: Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
September 12 » The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
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