The temperature on February 20, 1937 was between 3.4 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
September 25 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Day of marriage September 29, 1967
The temperature on September 29, 1967 was between 12.2 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 6 » Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
April 4 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
May 8 » The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
October 8 » Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
November 11 » Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
December 19 » Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
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