The temperature on September 21, 1958 was between 9.9 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 4 » Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
April 4 » The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
August 3 » The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
November 28 » Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
December 30 » The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension.
Day of death August 31, 1984
The temperature on August 31, 1984 was between 15.9 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
January 28 » Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
March 29 » The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis.
May 27 » The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
July 25 » Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
September 26 » The United Kingdom and China agree to a transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, to take place in 1997.
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