The temperature on September 26, 1959 was between 7.2 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
February 28 » Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
September 12 » Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
September 25 » Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
November 2 » The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
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