The temperature on July 19, 1947 was between 11.7 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
January 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
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.
Day of marriage December 24, 1969
The temperature on December 24, 1969 was between 1.0 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
March 19 » The 385-metre-tall (1,263ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
April 15 » The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
July 30 » Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
September 25 » The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
December 24 » Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.
Day of death September 11, 2015
The temperature on September 11, 2015 was between 9.3 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (92%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
March 4 » At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
April 2 » Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
May 9 » Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.
May 19 » The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast.
June 17 » Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
September 24 » At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
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