to create a new element with 103 protons. After spending two months confirming their finding, the team made their announcement on April 13. A day after the news of Patrice Lumumba's death, thousands of protesters attacked Belgium's embassies worldwide. The embassy in Moscow was attacked by a mob of thousands of Russian, Asian and African students, while the one in Belgrade was ransacked following a protest by 30,000 people. African students in New Delhi wrecked furniture at the embassy there. The next day, a group of 24 protesters fought with guards at the United Nations Security Council One reporter felt that the Moscow riots, with marchers from that city's People's Friendship University, "showed signs of careful planning" and that it had been orchestrated by the Soviet government. The Zuid-Afrikaanse Rand (ZAR) became the official currency of South Africa, replacing the South African pound at a 2:1 ratio. James E. Webb took office as administrator of NASA, serving until 1968. February 15, 1961 (Wednesday) Sabena Flight 548 crashed as it was approaching Brussels on a flight from New York City, killing all 72 people on board, including all of the United States figure skating team and its coaches. It was the first fatal crash of a Boeing 707 passenger jet. A total solar eclipse was visible in parts of the Northern Hemisphere from France to the Soviet Union, with the Black Sea port of Rostov-on-Don being the midpoint of greatest eclipse. President John F. Kennedy warned the Soviet Union to avoid interfering with the United Nations pacification of the Congo. Died in the crash of Sabena Flight 548: Maribel Vinson, 49, nine-time U.S. national figure skating champion, and her two daughters Laurence Owen, 16, U.S. national ladies' singles champion Maribel Owen, 20, and Dudley Richards, 29, U.S. national pairs champions; Dona Lee Carrier, 20, and her ice dance partner Roger Campbell, 19 Patricia Dineen, 25, and her husband and ice dance partner Robert Dineen, 25 Ray Hadley, Jr., 17, and his sister Ila Ray Hadley, 18, ice dance competitors Harold Hartshorne, 69, skating judge and former ice dancer Laurie Hickox, 15, and her brother and pairs partner William Hickox, 19 Gregory Kelley, 16, U.S. junior men's singles champion Edward LeMaire, skating judge, and his 14-year-old son Bradley Lord, 21, U.S. men's singles champion Rhode Lee Michelson, 17, ladies' singles competitor Douglas Ramsay, 16, men's singles competitor Edi Scholdan, Austrian figure skater