The temperature on March 18, 1947 was between 2.0 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
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 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
November 18 » The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
Day of death February 21, 2016
The temperature on February 21, 2016 was between 8.6 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain during 7.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 12 » Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
March 13 » The Ankara bombing kills at least 37 people.
March 22 » Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
June 12 » Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.
July 23 » Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.
October 13 » The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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