The temperature on November 15, 1955 was between 1.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (89%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 7 » Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
December 5 » E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
Day of death October 24, 2000
The temperature on October 24, 2000 was between 11.4 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 2 » First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
April 22 » In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami.
June 26 » The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
September 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
November 25 » The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
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