April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
Day of marriage May 29, 1947
The temperature on May 29, 1947 was between 10.4 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
December 2 » Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
December 6 » The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
Day of death April 20, 1956
The temperature on April 20, 1956 was between -0.8 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 19 » Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
June 28 » in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
October 19 » The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
October 28 » Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV.
November 13 » The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
December 31 » The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest.
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