The temperature on June 5, 1957 was between 8.0 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
January 22 » The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
June 10 » John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
August 1 » The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
October 14 » At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
Day of death October 14, 2015
The temperature on October 14, 2015 was between 2.0 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 7 » Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
June 3 » An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.
June 5 » An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthquake to strike Malaysia since 1975.
June 30 » A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.
July 20 » The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
July 23 » NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
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