The temperature on August 27, 1958 was between 13.0 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
April 26 » Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
August 29 » United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
October 11 » NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
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