The temperature on August 10, 1961 was between 10.1 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
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 23 » Algiers putsch by French generals.
September 12 » The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
September 16 » The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
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