The temperature on February 25, 1947 was between -12.6 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -5.4 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
February 23 » International Organization for Standardization is founded.
April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
July 4 » The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
Day of death December 13, 2018
The temperature on December 13, 2018 was between -0.8 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 14 » A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 15 injuries.
February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
March 4 » Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
April 23 » A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
May 9 » The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
September 20 » At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.
Day of burial December 28, 2018
The temperature on December 28, 2018 was between -3.1 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
April 18 » King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.
August 3 » Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
October 17 » Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.
December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
December 31 » Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-storey building collapsed in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.
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