The temperature on April 5, 1947 was between -0.6 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
October 16 » The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
Day of death April 7, 2014
The temperature on April 7, 2014 was between 11.9 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
April 2 » A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.
April 9 » A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
May 24 » At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.
July 17 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
October 30 » Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
November 21 » A stampede in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe caused by the police firing tear gas kills at least eleven people and injures 40 others.
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