April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of death March 28, 1961
The temperature on March 28, 1961 was between 0.6 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
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.
April 25 » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
July 4 » On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.
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.
October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
October 29 » Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
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