The temperature on January 18, 1962 was between 2.7 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
July 22 » Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
July 23 » The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
August 16 » Pete Best is discharged from The Beatles, to be replaced two days later by Ringo Starr.
November 4 » The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
December 25 » The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Day of death February 21, 1980
The temperature on February 21, 1980 was between 1.4 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
July 5 » Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
August 26 » After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI inadvertently detonates the bomb during its disarming.
September 22 » Iraq invades Iran.
September 26 » At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people die and 211 are injured.
October 26 » The Peter Muhlenberg Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated.
November 21 » A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
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