The temperature on March 13, 1947 was between -1.6 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 13.5 mm of rain during 11.3 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 23 » International Organization for Standardization is founded.
April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
July 11 » The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
Day of death June 9, 1996
The temperature on June 9, 1996 was between 10.5 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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April 1 » The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.
May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
July 25 » In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
October 31 » TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 99 people.
November 5 » Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
November 7 » NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
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