The temperature on January 31, 1947 was between -8.8 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -6.2 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
September 18 » The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States by the National Security Act. It also establishes the Air Force as an equal partner of the Army and Navy.
November 18 » The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
Day of death June 6, 2014
The temperature on June 6, 2014 was between 6.2 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 15.1 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
March 18 » The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
August 10 » Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.
August 20 » Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
October 1 » A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
October 14 » Utah State University receives a bomb threat against feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, who was to give a lecture the next day.
October 22 » Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
2013 » Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
2013 » Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (b. 1918)
2014 » Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician; pioneered studies of autism (b. 1928)
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