January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
September 11 » After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
Day of death July 20, 1961
The temperature on July 20, 1961 was between 12.6 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
January 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
August 25 » President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
October 31 » In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin's Mausoleum, also known as the Lenin Tomb.
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