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 1 » The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
March 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
March 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
September 7 » In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
October 19 » The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
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
January 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
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 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
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.
February 22 » Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
March 15 » Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
April 5 » Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, Germany.
April 11 » FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.
May 3 » Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
November 25 » The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
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