The temperature on January 13, 1954 was between 0.9 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 15.4 mm of rain during 10.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 15 » Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
March 13 » The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory lead to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
March 19 » Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio, setting a record that remains unbroken.
September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
Day of death May 6, 1958
The temperature on May 6, 1958 was between 9.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
July 1 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
July 29 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
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