The temperature on February 28, 1960 was between 4.9 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 1 » Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
July 8 » Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
September 5 » Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
October 4 » An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
November 1 » While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
November 28 » Mauritania becomes independent of France.
Day of death September 7, 1978
The temperature on September 7, 1978 was between 9.4 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
March 16 » Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
May 12 » In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
June 26 » Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
August 7 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
September 17 » The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
Day of burial September 11, 1978
The temperature on September 11, 1978 was between 11.7 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
January 24 » Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
March 11 » Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
April 1 » The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
May 12 » In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
July 10 » ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
October 21 » Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
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