The temperature on August 20, 1954 was between 12.2 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 2 » India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.
February 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
November 7 » In the US, Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.
Day of marriage July 18, 1978
The temperature on July 18, 1978 was between 9.3 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
June 11 » Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
August 17 » Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
August 26 » Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
Day of death October 27, 1989
The temperature on October 27, 1989 was between 10.8 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
May 1 » Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
June 4 » Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.
July 6 » The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.
October 1 » Denmark introduces the world's first legal same-sex registered partnerships.
December 17 » Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
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