The temperature on March 15, 1959 was between -0.4 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 30 » The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.
February 3 » Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
February 6 » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
September 12 » The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
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