The temperature on August 12, 1954 was between 11.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 19 » Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
May 7 » Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
July 15 » First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
October 11 » In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.
December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
Day of death May 17, 1978
The temperature on May 17, 1978 was between 4.3 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
January 19 » The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
March 14 » The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
April 28 » President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
June 1 » The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
August 13 » One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
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