The temperature on March 15, 1890 was about 13.5 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
Christening day March 2, 1962
The temperature on March 2, 1962 was between -3.7 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
February 27 » Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
July 1 » Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
August 5 » Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
Day of death February 28, 1962
The temperature on February 28, 1962 was between -2 °C and 0.9 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 5 » French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
March 4 » A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
August 27 » The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
October 20 » China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
November 4 » The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Day of burial March 2, 1962
The temperature on March 2, 1962 was between -3.7 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Netherlands New Guinea Conflict: Indonesian Navy fast patrol boat RI Macan Tutul commanded by Commodore Yos Sudarso sunk in Arafura Sea by the Dutch Navy.
August 5 » Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
November 17 » President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
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