The temperature on August 8, 1960 was between 11.7 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Avianca Flight 671 crashes at Montego Bay, Jamaica airport, killing 37 people.
March 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
August 7 » Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
August 20 » Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
November 14 » Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
Day of death February 6, 2009
The temperature on February 6, 2009 was between 1.0 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
January 15 » US Airways Flight 1549 ditches safely in the Hudson River after the plane collides with birds less than two minutes after take-off.
January 21 » Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip, officially ending a three-week war it had with Hamas. However, intermittent fire by both sides continues in the weeks to follow.
February 7 » Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
March 21 » Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
June 28 » Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
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