The temperature on November 5, 1962 was between 3.5 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
July 1 » Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
August 22 » The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
September 15 » The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
Day of death October 29, 1965
The temperature on October 29, 1965 was between 6.9 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 15 » A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
June 22 » The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed.
July 16 » The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
September 17 » The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.
December 3 » The Beatles release highly successful and influential experimental folk album Rubber Soul.
December 21 » International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.
Day of burial November 3, 1965
The temperature on November 3, 1965 was between 0.8 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 15 » A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
March 7 » Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
April 7 » Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate against the termination of the Colville tribe in Washington DC.
August 5 » The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
September 7 » Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
November 8 » The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
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