The temperature on April 22, 1954 was between 2.7 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
August 15 » Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
October 18 » Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
November 19 » Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
Day of death August 18, 2003
The temperature on August 18, 2003 was between 12.6 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
April 16 » The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
July 1 » Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
August 14 » Project Thread, an operation launched by CSIS and other Canadian law enforcement agencies, saw the arrest and incarceration of 24 innocent Muslim men, most of them young Pakistani students.
August 29 » Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
November 12 » Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
November 23 » Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
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