The temperature on March 19, 1947 was between 1.9 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
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.
August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
October 20 » The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
Day of death November 8, 2012
The temperature on November 8, 2012 was between 9.0 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
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.
March 4 » A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
May 21 » A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
June 2 » Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
September 9 » A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
September 28 » Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
November 17 » At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.
Day of cremation November 23, 2012
The temperature on November 23, 2012 was between 2.9 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
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 11 » A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
May 19 » A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
June 11 » More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
June 19 » WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
September 9 » A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
October 19 » A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.
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