The temperature on December 28, 1957 was between 3.1 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
May 22 » South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
November 7 » Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
Day of marriage December 21, 1979
The temperature on December 21, 1979 was between -3.1 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
April 2 » A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
July 3 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
July 17 » Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States.
August 5 » In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
November 12 » Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.
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