The temperature on February 26, 1949 was between 4.4 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 26 » The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
April 1 » Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
April 1 » The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
May 9 » Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
November 7 » The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
November 18 » The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
Day of death April 22, 2007
The temperature on April 22, 2007 was between 0.3 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (89%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
June 18 » The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters.
July 12 » U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
August 22 » The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.
September 13 » The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
September 29 » Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
November 23 » MSExplorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
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