The temperature on May 24, 1959 was between 7.2 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 14.7 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 3 » Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
February 19 » The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
July 29 » First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
August 11 » Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
September 12 » Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
December 3 » The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
Day of death August 5, 2011
The temperature on August 5, 2011 was between 15.4 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 1 » A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.
April 27 » The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. 205 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
September 20 » The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
September 29 » The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.
November 23 » Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
December 31 » NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
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