The temperature on July 1, 1956 was between 13.3 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Soviet Union cedes Porkkala back to Finland.
April 5 » In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Ceylon.
April 19 » Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
June 30 » A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
July 30 » A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
August 27 » The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
Day of death September 1, 1960
The temperature on September 1, 1960 was between 10.6 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
June 17 » The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4million for 7million acres (28,000km) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
August 9 » South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
August 12 » Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
August 15 » Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
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