The temperature on July 30, 1947 was between 14.5 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
February 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
Day of death April 11, 1960
The temperature on April 11, 1960 was between 6.4 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
June 26 » The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
October 19 » The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
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