The temperature on February 27, 1961 was between 5.4 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
April 11 » The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
May 4 » Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67km).
October 29 » Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
November 18 » United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
December 17 » Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
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