February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
September 13 » Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
December 18 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245mph (63.159km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
Day of death December 26, 1961
The temperature on December 26, 1961 was between -11.7 °C and -2.6 °C and averaged -7.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
June 19 » Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
August 10 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20million US gallons (76,000m) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
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.
December 9 » Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
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