The temperature on November 29, 1947 was between -0.3 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
February 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
July 11 » The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
Day of death May 25, 2013
The temperature on May 25, 2013 was between 2.8 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
April 20 » A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
April 29 » National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing seven people.
June 7 » A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and injuring more than 34 others.
November 13 » Hawaii legalizes same sex marriage.
November 17 » Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
December 5 » Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
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