The temperature on December 19, 1957 was between 2.1 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 10 » The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
July 1 » The International Geophysical Year begins.
July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
November 8 » Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
Day of death November 4, 1968
The temperature on November 4, 1968 was between 4.3 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 21 » A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
February 1 » The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
March 21 » Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
October 26 » Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
November 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
December 25 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
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