The temperature on March 19, 1953 was between -0.5 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
July 7 » Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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