The temperature on April 12, 1959 was between 8.4 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (45%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
March 9 » The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
June 20 » A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
June 23 » Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
October 12 » At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
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