The temperature on March 11, 1958 was between -6.6 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 16 » Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
September 15 » A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
October 2 » Guinea declares its independence from France.
October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
October 11 » NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
October 28 » John XXIII is elected Pope.
Day of cremation March 14, 1958
The temperature on March 14, 1958 was between -3.7 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
April 26 » Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
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