The temperature on March 3, 1947 was between -10.5 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -6.6 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 18 » First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
Day of marriage April 9, 1966
The temperature on April 9, 1966 was between 7.8 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 8.7 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
February 26 » Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
March 17 » Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSVAlvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
December 18 » Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
Day of death November 16, 1993
The temperature on November 16, 1993 was between -1.6 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 12 » North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
July 9 » The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
August 1 » The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
August 28 » The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
November 1 » The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
November 23 » Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
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