The temperature on January 21, 1947 was between -5.8 °C and 2.1 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
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 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
July 19 » Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
Day of death September 15, 1992
The temperature on September 15, 1992 was between 12.6 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 16 » El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
February 29 » First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.
March 31 » The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow.
May 7 » Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
May 24 » The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
November 21 » A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over the next two days the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over 100 tornadoes.
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