The temperature on May 30, 1958 was between 9.3 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 5 » Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
May 13 » May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
May 28 » Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
June 16 » Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
Day of death April 24, 1991
The temperature on April 24, 1991 was between -0.3 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 31 » Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
July 31 » The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
August 6 » Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
August 24 » Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
August 25 » Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
September 8 » The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
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