The temperature on August 15, 1921 was between 8.5 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 1 » Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion began, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
March 6 » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
Day of marriage October 18, 1952
The temperature on October 18, 1952 was between -1.0 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 15 » King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
February 21 » The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
April 15 » First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
December 30 » An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashed in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.
Day of death December 15, 1979
The temperature on December 15, 1979 was between 5.6 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 28 » A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
April 4 » Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
May 9 » Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
October 27 » Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
November 20 » Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
December 27 » The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Day of burial December 20, 1979
The temperature on December 20, 1979 was between -1.1 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 25 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
March 5 » Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
September 13 » South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
September 16 » The Sugarhill Gang were formed and rappers delight was released.
November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
December 27 » The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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