The temperature on August 20, 1962 was between 10.0 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
July 9 » Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear test at orbital altitudes.
July 17 » Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
August 5 » American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
Day of death May 7, 2018
The temperature on May 7, 2018 was between 8.5 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 13 » A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii caused widespread panic in the state.
March 23 » President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.
May 9 » The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
September 20 » At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.
September 28 » The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
October 17 » The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
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