The temperature on November 15, 1947 was between 3.8 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
October 20 » The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
November 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
Day of death October 9, 2018
The temperature on October 9, 2018 was between 5.8 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (77%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 3 » For the first time in history all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
January 13 » A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii caused widespread panic in the state.
February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
March 4 » Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
May 25 » Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
May 25 » The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
Day of cremation October 12, 2018
The temperature on October 12, 2018 was between 14.7 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (82%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 13 » A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii caused widespread panic in the state.
January 31 » Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
April 23 » A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
May 25 » The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
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