The temperature on January 13, 1947 was between 3.2 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
April 9 » The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
November 29 » Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
Day of death July 18, 2000
The temperature on July 18, 2000 was between 12.5 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 14 » The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
May 24 » Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
June 7 » The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
November 7 » The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
November 11 » Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
December 31 » The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.
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