The temperature on November 8, 1957 was between 5.2 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
March 4 » The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
May 1 » Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire, England.
July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
September 4 » The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
October 1 » First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
Day of death November 17, 1960
The temperature on November 17, 1960 was between 1.5 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
January 14 » The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
March 9 » Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
March 21 » Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
May 9 » The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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