The temperature on July 4, 1955 was between 10.9 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
May 14 » Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
September 16 » A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
November 1 » The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
December 8 » The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
Day of death November 10, 2018
The temperature on November 10, 2018 was between 9.3 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
May 25 » Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
May 25 » The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
September 20 » At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.
October 17 » Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.
December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
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