The temperature on December 9, 1961 was between 0.5 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
January 31 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
April 11 » The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
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.
April 23 » Algiers putsch by French generals.
September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
Day of death August 20, 1997
The temperature on August 20, 1997 was between 13.6 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 20.7 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 17 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
February 28 » GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
April 18 » The Red River flood begins and soon overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
August 7 » Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people.
August 25 » Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
October 4 » The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
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