The temperature on October 28, 1962 was between 5.5 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
March 16 » A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
Day of death December 11, 1969
The temperature on December 11, 1969 was between -10.8 °C and -4.1 °C and averaged -7.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 4 » Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
March 28 » Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
April 22 » British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
July 3 » Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
October 1 » Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
October 29 » The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
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