The temperature on June 26, 1962 was between 9.6 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
June 14 » The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
July 12 » The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 23 » The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
Day of death May 27, 2000
The temperature on May 27, 2000 was between 10.2 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
April 22 » In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami.
May 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
September 15 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.
December 19 » The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.
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