The temperature on September 22, 1961 was between 8.8 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 29 » The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
April 8 » A large explosion on board the MVDara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
June 4 » Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
August 1 » U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
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