The temperature on December 1, 1947 was between -2.6 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
June 5 » Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
Day of marriage April 23, 1968
The temperature on April 23, 1968 was between 5.7 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 12 » Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
May 30 » Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
July 8 » The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
August 21 » James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
December 31 » The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.
Day of death May 25, 1985
The temperature on May 25, 1985 was between 12.0 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 8 » A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
July 13 » Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
September 4 » The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
December 8 » The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia is established.
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