The temperature on June 30, 1953 was between 16.4 °C and 28.4 °C and averaged 22.8 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
Day of marriage January 22, 1974
The temperature on January 22, 1974 was between 1.1 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 8 » After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
April 6 » The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
May 30 » The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
June 26 » The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
July 26 » Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
August 4 » A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
Day of death May 26, 1997
The temperature on May 26, 1997 was between 5.2 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
June 25 » An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
July 2 » The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
July 10 » Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
July 22 » The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
September 26 » A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
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