The temperature on July 14, 1954 was between 9.8 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
May 17 » The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
August 23 » First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
Day of death December 28, 1962
The temperature on December 28, 1962 was between -10.2 °C and -3.7 °C and averaged -5.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 2 » Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
March 19 » The Algerian War of Independence ends.
June 1 » Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
July 30 » The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
Day of burial January 2, 1963
The temperature on January 2, 1963 was between -10 °C and -7.7 °C and averaged -8.6 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 19 » The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
March 5 » American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
May 15 » Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space, and the last American to go into space alone.
June 21 » Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
October 12 » After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
November 29 » Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
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