The temperature on September 10, 1960 was between 12.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 13 » With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
April 25 » The United States Navy submarine USSTriton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
June 17 » The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4million for 7million acres (28,000km) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
December 13 » While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
December 17 » Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
Day of death March 12, 1979
The temperature on March 12, 1979 was between 4.0 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
April 1 » Nickelodeon was launched in United States.
May 21 » White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
June 3 » A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000m) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
September 13 » South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
October 14 » The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
Day of burial March 15, 1979
The temperature on March 15, 1979 was between 0.6 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
May 4 » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
July 15 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
July 21 » Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
October 15 » Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
October 17 » The Department of Education Organization Act creates the US Department of Education.
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