The temperature on July 31, 1953 was between 11.4 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 13.1 mm of rain during 10.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
August 22 » The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
November 23 » Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.
Day of death April 8, 1974
The temperature on April 8, 1974 was between 5.2 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 4 » People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
July 23 » The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
September 8 » Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
December 1 » TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
December 13 » Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
December 24 » Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
Day of burial August 3, 1974
The temperature on August 3, 1974 was between 5.4 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
March 8 » Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
April 29 » Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
June 29 » Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan Peron is terminally ill.
August 30 » A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
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