The temperature on October 14, 1960 was between 4.7 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Avianca Flight 671 crashes at Montego Bay, Jamaica airport, killing 37 people.
June 20 » The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
July 20 » The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USSGeorge Washington, for the first time.
August 12 » Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
September 5 » Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
December 17 » Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
Day of death February 4, 1961
The temperature on February 4, 1961 was between -0.9 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
March 9 » Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
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.
May 25 » Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
July 20 » French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
October 1 » The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
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