The temperature on October 13, 1953 was between 10.0 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
June 26 » Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
October 1 » A Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.
November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
Day of death February 19, 1990
The temperature on February 19, 1990 was between 4.7 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (51%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 18 » Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
April 24 » Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
July 26 » The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
September 9 » Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District.
September 16 » The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
December 8 » Galileo (spacecraft) flies past Earth.
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