The temperature on March 11, 1962 was between 1.2 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 18.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
January 10 » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
May 24 » Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
September 27 » Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
October 9 » Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
Day of death August 1, 1962
The temperature on August 1, 1962 was between 10.4 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 29 » Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11⁄2 day constitutional crisis.
April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
June 1 » Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
August 16 » Pete Best is discharged from The Beatles, to be replaced two days later by Ringo Starr.
September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
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