The temperature on May 14, 1966 was between 6.8 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
June 14 » The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
July 2 » France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
July 24 » Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
August 23 » Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
October 5 » A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
Day of death October 17, 1967
The temperature on October 17, 1967 was between 8.0 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
January 27 » Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
May 30 » The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
July 3 » The Aden Emergency: The Battle of the Crater in which the British Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retake the Crater district following the Arab Police mutiny.
July 6 » Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
October 8 » Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
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