The temperature on August 24, 1960 was between 14.9 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 4 » The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
May 9 » The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
May 23 » A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
July 28 » The German Volkswagen Act came into force.
November 4 » At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
Day of burial August 27, 1960
The temperature on August 27, 1960 was between 12.5 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
May 1 » Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
May 3 » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
June 25 » Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
September 18 » Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
October 4 » An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
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