The temperature on March 13, 1954 was between 1.3 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
May 13 » The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
June 27 » The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
September 3 » The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
October 11 » In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.
Day of death October 24, 2000
The temperature on October 24, 2000 was between 11.4 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 30 » Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
September 14 » Microsoft releases Windows ME.
September 20 » The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
October 12 » The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
November 7 » Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
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