The temperature on July 25, 1947 was between 13.9 °C and 28.2 °C and averaged 21.2 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
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.
September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
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.
November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
Day of marriage September 1, 1976
The temperature on September 1, 1976 was between 10.3 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
April 5 » In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
June 29 » The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
July 4 » The U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial.
July 17 » East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
August 7 » Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
November 15 » René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
Day of death September 7, 2003
The temperature on September 7, 2003 was between 10.0 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 11 » Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
January 27 » The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
March 1 » Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
April 7 » U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
July 8 » Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.
August 22 » Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
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