The temperature on October 9, 1938 was between 10.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
November 14 » The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
Day of death November 17, 1959
The temperature on November 17, 1959 was between 0.9 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
January 4 » Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
January 7 » The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
June 30 » A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
November 20 » The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
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