The temperature on September 24, 1967 was between 12.6 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 4 » Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
May 1 » Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
July 12 » Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.
July 29 » During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
October 9 » A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
December 6 » Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
Day of death September 15, 1969
The temperature on September 15, 1969 was between 13.8 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 18 » United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
March 16 » A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
June 3 » Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USSFrank E. Evans in half.
July 3 » Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
October 17 » The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
December 8 » Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.
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