The temperature on May 18, 1955 was between 4.1 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 7 » Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
July 27 » El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
October 29 » The Soviet battleshipNovorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
December 5 » E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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