The temperature on March 16, 1961 was between 1.7 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 14 » Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
July 12 » Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
October 1 » The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
November 18 » United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
Day of death May 23, 2015
The temperature on May 23, 2015 was between 6.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
January 1 » The Eurasian Economic Union comes into effect, creating a political and economic union between Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
January 7 » A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
January 9 » The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
January 15 » The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets
February 20 » Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
May 9 » Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.
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