The temperature on May 15, 1952 was between 10.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 28 » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
April 28 » The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
April 28 » The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
October 8 » The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
November 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
December 20 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
Day of death August 1, 1999
The temperature on August 1, 1999 was between 13.2 °C and 31.4 °C and averaged 22.8 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 4 » Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
July 9 » Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
July 20 » The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
August 7 » The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
November 27 » The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
December 21 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.
Day of burial August 4, 1999
The temperature on August 4, 1999 was between 13.9 °C and 28.2 °C and averaged 21.9 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece later adopts the euro).
March 29 » A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
April 19 » The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
May 24 » The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
August 2 » The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
October 12 » The World Population reaches 6 billion.
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