The temperature on January 6, 1959 was between 0.7 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 20 » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
March 10 » Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
June 14 » Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
June 23 » Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
August 11 » Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
Day of death June 9, 1962
The temperature on June 9, 1962 was between 3.9 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
October 20 » China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
November 20 » Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
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