The temperature on May 23, 1966 was between 8.8 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 26 » Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
May 25 » Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
May 30 » Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
September 30 » Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
October 21 » A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
November 24 » Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
Day of death May 30, 1966
The temperature on May 30, 1966 was between 2.5 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 2 » Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
April 26 » A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
July 4 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
August 23 » Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
September 16 » The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
November 30 » Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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