The temperature on April 21, 1953 was between 2.9 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
May 25 » Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
Day of death January 4, 2013
The temperature on January 4, 2013 was between 8.3 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 4 » A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.
January 15 » A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.
April 18 » A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
June 30 » Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.
November 17 » Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
November 19 » A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
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