The temperature on August 21, 1947 was between 14.4 °C and 27.5 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
October 1 » The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
December 30 » Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
Day of death November 21, 1962
The temperature on November 21, 1962 was between -3.5 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 10 » Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
October 3 » Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
October 9 » Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
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