The temperature on October 12, 1954 was between 5.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
April 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
August 24 » The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
September 11 » Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
Day of death April 9, 1999
The temperature on April 9, 1999 was between 2.7 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 25 » A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
May 3 » Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war.
July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
August 2 » The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
November 30 » Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
Day of cremation April 14, 1999
The temperature on April 14, 1999 was between 0.4 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 11 » Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
April 18 » Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time points scorer, plays his final game at Madison Square Garden as a teammate of the New York Rangers in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Gretzky recorded his final career point, an assist, bringing his career point total to 2,857.
May 28 » In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
September 21 » The Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
October 31 » Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
December 20 » Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.
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