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
February 23 » International Organization for Standardization is founded.
March 1 » The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
November 30 » Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
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.
January 9 » An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
April 14 » Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
April 22 » More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
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.
July 23 » TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
October 14 » A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
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