The temperature on October 16, 1947 was between 7.8 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 10 » The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
May 1 » Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
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 13, 2014
The temperature on May 13, 2014 was between 5.5 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
August 20 » Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
September 16 » The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
September 24 » The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
September 27 » The eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan occurs.
October 14 » A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
October 31 » During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California
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