The temperature on July 15, 1921 was between 6.6 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 21 » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
March 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
June 20 » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.
Day of marriage November 8, 1947
The temperature on November 8, 1947 was between 6.6 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
August 4 » The Supreme Court of Japan 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.
December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
Day of death June 16, 1986
The temperature on June 16, 1986 was between 15.8 °C and 30.3 °C and averaged 23.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 11 » The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
February 8 » Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
February 16 » The Soviet liner MSMikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
March 24 » The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
May 2 » Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
October 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
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