The temperature on April 5, 1953 was between 1.1 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
August 12 » The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
Day of death November 2, 2000
The temperature on November 2, 2000 was between 5.3 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
June 13 » President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
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» Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
June 22 » Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
October 31 » Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff from Taipei, killing 83.
November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
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