The temperature on January 27, 1957 was between 2.6 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 1 » George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
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.
June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
October 10 » U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
November 1 » The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
Day of death February 17, 1997
The temperature on February 17, 1997 was between 3.0 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
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January 23 » Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
April 29 » The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
July 4 » NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
July 10 » Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
September 19 » The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
December 27 » Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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