The temperature on October 17, 1966 was between 8.4 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
July 8 » King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
August 22 » Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
October 22 » The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
November 8 » Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
December 24 » A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
Day of death December 10, 1978
The temperature on December 10, 1978 was between 5.7 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 19 » Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
March 15 » Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
July 7 » The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
August 10 » Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
August 26 » Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
October 1 » Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
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