The temperature on December 21, 1948 was between -2.0 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 1 » The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.
January 17 » The Renville Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia is ratified.
April 13 » In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
July 8 » The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
July 29 » Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
October 5 » The Ashgabat earthquake kills between 10,000 and 110,000 people.
Day of death October 1, 2001
The temperature on October 1, 2001 was between 15.6 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
June 5 » Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
July 2 » The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
September 13 » Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
October 1 » Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, killing 38.
October 8 » A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
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