The temperature on June 24, 1968 was between 10.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 16 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
April 6 » Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
May 25 » The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.
November 23 » 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game: Harvard Crimson rallies to tie Yale Bulldogs 29–29 at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts.
December 20 » The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
December 25 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
Day of death September 10, 1969
The temperature on September 10, 1969 was between 12.5 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The Venera 5 space probe is launched at 06:28:08 UTC from Baikonur.
April 9 » The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
April 15 » The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
August 4 » Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
August 15 » The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
December 9 » U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
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