The temperature on September 16, 1948 was between 12.0 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
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).
February 28 » Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots and looting in Accra.
April 7 » The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
May 23 » Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
August 12 » Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.
September 22 » Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
December 20 » Indonesian National Revolution: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly-formed Republic of Indonesia.
Day of death March 6, 2018
The temperature on March 6, 2018 was between 1.0 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (26%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » For the first time in history all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
March 4 » Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
May 25 » Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
August 3 » Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
October 17 » The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
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