The temperature on March 26, 1947 was between 0.1 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 1 » The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
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.
December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
Day of death August 18, 1966
The temperature on August 18, 1966 was between 11.9 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
October 9 » Vietnam War: South Korean troops commit the Binh Tai Massacre.
November 11 » NASA launches Gemini 12.
December 24 » A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
December 27 » The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
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