The temperature on November 14, 1954 was between 4.7 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
May 13 » The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
June 24 » First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Viet Minh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M.100 of France in An Khê.
June 27 » The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
July 5 » The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
October 11 » In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.
Day of death November 15, 1954
The temperature on November 15, 1954 was between 0.8 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
May 13 » The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
November 7 » In the US, Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.
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