The temperature on February 11, 1959 was between -4.4 °C and -0.8 °C and averaged -2.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
March 31 » The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
May 19 » The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
August 11 » Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
October 2 » Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. The first episode is “Where Is Everybody?”
December 1 » Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
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