The temperature on December 22, 1923 was between -8.0 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
September 29 » The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.
October 6 » The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
October 16 » The Walt Disney Company is founded.
November 11 » Adolf Hitler was arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
Day of marriage January 28, 1949
The temperature on January 28, 1949 was between -2.4 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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).
January 2 » Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
January 26 » The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
March 31 » The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
May 12 » Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
August 31 » The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
November 15 » Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
Day of death April 15, 1978
The temperature on April 15, 1978 was between -0.8 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 19 » The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
February 8 » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
February 9 » The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
August 13 » One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
December 11 » The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
Day of cremation April 19, 1978
The temperature on April 19, 1978 was between 2.1 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 17 » The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
June 26 » Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
July 30 » The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
August 10 » Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
November 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
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