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
January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
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.
September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
November 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
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.
March 16 » Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
March 20 » Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
April 14 » Twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others.
May 24 » A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
August 3 » A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
August 20 » Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
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