The temperature on August 19, 1960 was between 10.8 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 13 » With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
May 3 » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
September 24 » USSEnterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
October 29 » In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
November 1 » While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
Day of death December 7, 2000
The temperature on December 7, 2000 was between 7.4 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
March 27 » A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
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.
May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
June 21 » Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
December 12 » The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
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