The temperature on March 7, 1947 was between -8.4 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -3.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
Day of death April 19, 2004
The temperature on April 19, 2004 was between 1.5 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 29 » Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
May 15 » Arsenal F.C. go an entire league campaign unbeaten in the English Premier League, joining Preston North End F.C with the right to claim the title "The Invincibles".
August 3 » The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
November 9 » Firefox 1.0 is released.
November 11 » The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
December 30 » A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
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