April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
Day of death March 16, 1961
The temperature on March 16, 1961 was between 1.7 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 14 » Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
March 2 » John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
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.
June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
July 20 » French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
October 1 » The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
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