The temperature on May 10, 1956 was between 8.7 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.
July 16 » Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; due to changing economics, all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
September 13 » The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
October 15 » FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
November 12 » In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in Rafah by Israeli soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.
November 13 » The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Day of death June 20, 1976
The temperature on June 20, 1976 was between 10.4 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 28.2 mm of rain during 16.0 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
July 17 » East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
July 22 » Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
July 25 » Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
August 7 » Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
September 16 » Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
September 21 » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.
Day of burial June 24, 1976
The temperature on June 24, 1976 was between 17.4 °C and 32.0 °C and averaged 24.7 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 5 » The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
February 9 » Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
June 5 » The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
June 27 » Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
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