The temperature on November 4, 1952 was between 2.8 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 20 » The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
April 8 » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
June 26 » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
Day of death July 8, 2001
The temperature on July 8, 2001 was between 17.0 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain during 7.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
June 11 » Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
September 12 » Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
October 19 » SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
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