The temperature on April 20, 1952 was between 6.6 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
May 3 » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
September 19 » The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
Day of death April 10, 2015
The temperature on April 10, 2015 was between 2.7 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
January 7 » Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
January 12 » Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon.
February 22 » A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
July 16 » Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
September 9 » Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
November 24 » A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria-Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
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