The temperature on November 4, 1957 was between 7.6 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
April 5 » In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first Chief Minister.
July 1 » The International Geophysical Year begins.
July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
August 31 » The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
November 7 » Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
Day of death February 12, 1979
The temperature on February 12, 1979 was between -0.9 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
May 9 » Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
July 19 » The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
September 13 » South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
October 26 » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
December 9 » The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
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