The temperature on March 11, 1947 was between -3.2 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
Day of death November 30, 1999
The temperature on November 30, 1999 was between 6.5 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 27 » Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
April 14 » A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
June 10 » Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
July 5 » U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
August 7 » The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
December 2 » The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
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