The temperature on March 27, 1961 was between 0.4 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
January 26 » John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be the first woman Physician to the President.
March 30 » The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
April 16 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
July 25 » Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
September 18 » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Day of death October 3, 1965
The temperature on October 3, 1965 was between 7.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 21 » Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a talk at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
June 9 » Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
August 6 » US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
August 29 » The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
September 6 » India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
September 20 » Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in course of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
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