The temperature on May 17, 1958 was between 3.7 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
March 17 » The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite.
May 13 » During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
July 1 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
Day of marriage April 12, 1981
The temperature on April 12, 1981 was between 8.2 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » Greece is admitted into the European Community.
March 30 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
April 4 » Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
April 11 » A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
April 26 » Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
July 30 » As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
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