The temperature on May 10, 1906 was between 8.0 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
May 22 » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
September 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).
Day of marriage August 8, 1946
The temperature on August 8, 1946 was between 13.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
January 6 » The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
May 5 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
June 7 » The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of the Second World War.
July 4 » After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
July 22 » King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
August 7 » The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
Day of death March 31, 1983
The temperature on March 31, 1983 was between 3.7 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily 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.
February 13 » A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
February 18 » Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
March 2 » Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
May 26 » The 7.8 Mw Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
November 7 » United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.
Day of burial April 2, 1983
The temperature on April 2, 1983 was between 0.1 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
February 28 » The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
March 21 » The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
May 17 » The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2million pounds [1.9kt]), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
May 20 » First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
November 26 » Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
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