The temperature on May 28, 1961 was between -0.2 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
March 2 » John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
August 13 » Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.
August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
October 29 » Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
Day of death August 14, 1961
The temperature on August 14, 1961 was between 10.7 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
March 29 » The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
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.
November 29 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
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