The temperature on April 14, 1959 was between 10.2 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 29 » The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden.
February 6 » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
April 8 » The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
May 4 » The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
September 26 » Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
October 21 » In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.
Day of death June 11, 1962
The temperature on June 11, 1962 was between 6.7 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
December 2 » Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.
December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
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