The temperature on December 14, 1969 was between -0.5 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 2 » In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
April 1 » The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.
May 15 » People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by the University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot.
May 26 » Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
November 21 » U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
Day of death December 9, 1990
The temperature on December 9, 1990 was between -0.7 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
January 20 » Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
March 27 » The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí.
May 20 » The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
June 19 » The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
October 5 » After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
December 11 » Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.
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