The temperature on September 19, 1953 was between 8.9 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
Day of death May 10, 1958
The temperature on May 10, 1958 was between 13.2 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 22 » Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
March 31 » In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
April 21 » United Airlines Flight 736 collides into a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
May 24 » United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
May 27 » First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
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