The temperature on September 30, 1961 was between 14.6 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
March 2 » John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
May 19 » Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
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.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Murphy Torn, "Family tree Torn", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/torn-stamboom/P1298.php : accessed January 7, 2026), "Saskia Horsten (1961-2020)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.