The temperature on June 7, 1924 was between 10.2 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
Day of death March 29, 1962
The temperature on March 29, 1962 was between 2.0 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 9.9 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
May 19 » A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
June 1 » Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 18 » Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
October 16 » Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
Day of burial April 3, 1962
The temperature on April 3, 1962 was between 5.4 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
March 29 » Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11⁄2 day constitutional crisis.
July 6 » As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
September 23 » The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
October 27 » An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
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