The temperature on June 8, 1947 was between 11.3 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
June 5 » Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
December 6 » The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
Day of marriage April 19, 1973
The temperature on April 19, 1973 was between 1.4 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
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.
May 3 » The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
October 8 » Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
October 17 » OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
November 1 » The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
November 25 » Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
December 3 » Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
Day of death March 15, 1998
The temperature on March 15, 1998 was between 6.5 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
May 21 » In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker.
June 5 » A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
June 11 » Compaq Computer pays US$9billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
July 15 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
November 26 » The Khanna rail disaster takes 212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India.
December 26 » Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
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