The temperature on August 16, 1962 was between 12.5 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
July 1 » Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
August 5 » Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
Day of death May 19, 2018
The temperature on May 19, 2018 was between 6.1 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » For the first time in history all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
March 23 » President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.
May 25 » Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
May 25 » The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
September 20 » At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.
December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
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