The temperature on October 24, 1957 was between 11.4 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 22 » Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
April 24 » Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
September 22 » In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
October 29 » Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.
Day of death March 25, 1961
The temperature on March 25, 1961 was between 5.0 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
March 2 » John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
April 27 » Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
June 23 » The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
October 29 » Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
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