The temperature on November 22, 1966 was between 2.6 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 13 » Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
January 15 » The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
April 21 » Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
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.
November 15 » Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
Day of death January 29, 1981
The temperature on January 29, 1981 was between 3.2 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
March 1 » Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
March 26 » Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party.
May 5 » Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
September 15 » The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
September 18 » The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
November 1 » Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.
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