The temperature on November 4, 1956 was between 7.5 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 4 » The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
January 30 » African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
June 30 » A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
October 15 » FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
November 1 » The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala.
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 December 9, 1959
The temperature on December 9, 1959 was between -1.3 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
February 6 » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
April 8 » The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
June 8 » USSBarbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
June 14 » Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
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