The temperature on October 6, 1955 was between 9.2 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 27.7 mm of rain during 13.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
May 25 » First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: A British expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reaches the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day.
October 1 » The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.
October 29 » The Soviet battleshipNovorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
November 1 » The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
Day of death March 24, 1958
The temperature on March 24, 1958 was between -4.1 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
February 6 » Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
March 24 » Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
May 13 » During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
October 2 » Guinea declares its independence from France.
November 28 » First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
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