The temperature on October 12, 1968 was between 12.4 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 18.9 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
January 30 » Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
March 16 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
November 26 » Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
December 20 » The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
Day of death February 20, 2013
The temperature on February 20, 2013 was between -2.4 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
April 20 » A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
May 31 » A record breaking 2.6 mile wide tornado strikes El Reno, Oklahoma, United States, causing eight fatalities and over 150 injuries.
June 11 » Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It reopened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.
June 23 » Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
August 15 » At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
October 28 » Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at the Tiananmen Square in China.
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