The temperature on August 9, 1955 was between 11.0 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
July 17 » Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
August 19 » In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
Day of death May 31, 1961
The temperature on May 31, 1961 was between 8.4 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
May 31 » In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
October 20 » The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
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