The temperature on January 28, 1960 was between 5.2 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
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.
August 7 » Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
August 9 » South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
September 10 » At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
Christening day July 22, 1962
The temperature on July 22, 1962 was between 13.0 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
July 9 » Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear test at orbital altitudes.
July 30 » The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
August 16 » Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
September 27 » Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
Day of death October 24, 1994
The temperature on October 24, 1994 was between 8.1 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
June 20 » The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured.
July 25 » Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
September 30 » Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
November 8 » Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination.
November 9 » The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
November 20 » The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
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