The temperature on July 20, 1947 was between 13.0 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
February 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
September 30 » The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
Day of death January 11, 2000
The temperature on January 11, 2000 was between -1.2 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 30 » Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
March 21 » Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
September 28 » Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
October 5 » Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
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