The temperature on May 4, 1952 was between 9.2 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 15 » First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
May 2 » A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
July 23 » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
November 14 » The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.
Day of death May 17, 2011
The temperature on May 17, 2011 was between 10.7 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
March 12 » A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
April 29 » The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
July 8 » Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
July 13 » Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
September 20 » The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
December 31 » Samoa and Tokelau skip the day of December 30, 2011 as they jump to the other side of International Date Line, changing their timezones.
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