The temperature on September 13, 1947 was between 13.5 °C and 28.1 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 10.8 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (58%). 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.
June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
November 30 » Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
Day of death September 21, 2001
The temperature on September 21, 2001 was between 7.3 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 20 » President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
April 1 » Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
May 29 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
October 8 » A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
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