The temperature on December 5, 1955 was between 1.4 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 11 » The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
May 9 » Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
October 29 » The Soviet battleshipNovorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
November 1 » The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
December 5 » The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
Day of death May 4, 1959
The temperature on May 4, 1959 was between 2.5 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
February 19 » The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
February 20 » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
May 30 » The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
September 12 » The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
September 14 » The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
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