The temperature on January 25, 1954 was between -6.0 °C and -1.0 °C and averaged -4.0 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (77%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
April 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
June 14 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
November 12 » Ellis Island ceased operations.
Day of death November 1, 1969
The temperature on November 1, 1969 was between 9.2 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
April 17 » Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
May 13 » May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
September 9 » In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
October 17 » The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
November 19 » Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
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