The temperature on August 15, 1949 was between 9.9 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
April 7 » The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
July 27 » Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
September 4 » The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
November 18 » The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
December 4 » Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.
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