February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
Day of death November 30, 1961
The temperature on November 30, 1961 was between 6.8 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 19.9 mm of rain during 12.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
January 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
April 25 » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
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.
October 20 » The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
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