The temperature on May 11, 1959 was between 13.0 °C and 27.1 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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.
March 18 » The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
July 29 » First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
September 12 » Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
October 21 » President Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.
November 21 » American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.
Day of death September 16, 2014
The temperature on September 16, 2014 was between 11.4 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
March 12 » A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
March 16 » Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
April 22 » More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
September 16 » The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
October 14 » Utah State University receives a bomb threat against feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, who was to give a lecture the next day.
December 4 » Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.
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