The temperature on February 28, 1947 was between -3.5 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 13.4 mm of rain during 19.1 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
July 4 » The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
September 30 » The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
October 1 » The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
Day of marriage December 14, 1971
The temperature on December 14, 1971 was between 2.3 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
April 7 » President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
April 19 » Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
October 12 » The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire begins.
November 27 » The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
December 14 » Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.)
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