The temperature on February 23, 1954 was between 2.4 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 22 » Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
May 17 » The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
August 24 » Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
Day of death March 8, 2009
The temperature on March 8, 2009 was between 2.8 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 20 » A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
April 12 » Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.
May 25 » North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several missile tests, building tensions in the international community.
June 5 » After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
August 10 » Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
December 8 » Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others.
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