The temperature on April 28, 1947 was between 8.1 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
Day of death March 16, 2013
The temperature on March 16, 2013 was between 2.7 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 29 » Alabama bunker hostage crisis: After shooting and killing of school bus driver, 66 years old Charles Albert Poland, Jr, by 65 year old Vietnam War era veteran, Jimmy Lee Dykes.
February 8 » A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
March 19 » A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
April 19 » Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
September 6 » It was announced that Leeuwarden would become cultural capital of Europe of 2018 together with Valletta.
September 29 » Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.
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