The temperature on October 13, 1959 was between 6.5 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 2 » Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
August 17 » Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
September 26 » Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
November 2 » The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
Day of death September 17, 1964
The temperature on September 17, 1964 was between 9.3 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
April 13 » At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
May 2 » Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USNS Card while it is docked at Saigon. Two Viet Cong combat swimmers had placed explosives on the ship's hull. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.
August 7 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
August 28 » The Philadelphia race riot begins.
December 24 » Flying Tiger Line Flight 282 crashes after takeoff from San Francisco International Airport, killing three.
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