The temperature on July 1, 1961 was between 15.2 °C and 31.5 °C and averaged 23.8 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
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.
May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
September 18 » CONCACAF is established as the governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
December 9 » Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
Day of death August 31, 1997
The temperature on August 31, 1997 was between 15.7 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
March 22 » Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
June 25 » An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
July 19 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
July 22 » The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
August 3 » The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
August 29 » At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
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