The temperature on August 16, 1953 was between 10.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
Day of marriage December 29, 1980
The temperature on December 29, 1980 was between 4.1 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 21 » Iran Air Flight 291 crashes in the Alborz Mountains while on approach to Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran, killing 128 people.
February 17 » First winter ascent of Mount Everest by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.
March 27 » The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
April 12 » Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
July 1 » "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
October 26 » The Peter Muhlenberg Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated.
Day of death September 1, 2015
The temperature on September 1, 2015 was between 12.0 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
May 9 » An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
June 3 » An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.
August 12 » At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.
September 9 » Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
September 14 » The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
December 18 » Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.
Day of burial September 7, 2015
The temperature on September 7, 2015 was between 12.3 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 7 » A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
February 20 » Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
March 4 » At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
June 30 » A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.
September 9 » Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
November 24 » An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
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