The temperature on July 1, 1958 was between 16.6 °C and 26.4 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
December 11 » French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
Day of death February 29, 1960
The temperature on February 29, 1960 was between 6.9 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
February 29 » The 5.7Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir, and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
August 3 » Niger gains independence from France.
November 14 » Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
December 17 » Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
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