The temperature on September 8, 1952 was between 6.2 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 8 » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
May 3 » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
September 15 » The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
October 14 » Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
November 4 » The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
December 5 » Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.
Day of death May 30, 2001
The temperature on May 30, 2001 was between 8.3 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
June 23 » The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
August 25 » American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
November 27 » A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
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