The temperature on March 17, 1966 was between 6.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
May 21 » The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
June 2 » Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
July 2 » France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
October 22 » The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
November 4 » The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7m (22ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Also Venice was submerged on the same day at its record all-time acqua alta of 194cm (76in).
Christening day May 1, 1966
The temperature on May 1, 1966 was between 8.5 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
July 2 » France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
July 8 » King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
October 10 » The Beach Boys release one of their biggest singles, ranked the 6th greatest song by Rolling Stone, "Good Vibrations".
October 21 » A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
Day of death April 13, 1968
The temperature on April 13, 1968 was between 1.0 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
February 1 » Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
March 16 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
April 3 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
May 12 » Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
July 18 » Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
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