The temperature on January 8, 1947 was between -11.3 °C and -0.9 °C and averaged -6.4 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
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 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
September 18 » The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States by the National Security Act. It also establishes the Air Force as an equal partner of the Army and Navy.
October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
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.
Day of death June 30, 2001
The temperature on June 30, 2001 was between 16.0 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
October 1 » Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, killing 38.
October 19 » SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
November 30 » Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders as the Green River Killer.
December 19 » Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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