The temperature on November 6, 1962 was between 2.9 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
May 24 » Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
October 27 » By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
Day of death October 11, 1963
The temperature on October 11, 1963 was between 9.7 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.
June 12 » NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
August 8 » Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6million in bank notes.
September 15 » Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
October 22 » A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
November 9 » At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
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