The temperature on July 29, 1966 was between 11.3 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 11.2 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 21 » The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
June 2 » Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
August 18 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
August 22 » Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
November 8 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
Day of death February 13, 1986
The temperature on February 13, 1986 was between -7.7 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
April 29 » A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
May 7 » Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
August 20 » In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
October 21 » In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
October 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
November 3 » Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
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