The temperature on July 21, 1937 was between 13.7 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
Day of marriage December 23, 1970
The temperature on December 23, 1970 was between -4.9 °C and 0.8 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 31 » Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
August 29 » Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
September 12 » Dawson's Field hijackings: Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
December 2 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
December 17 » Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
Day of death November 26, 1999
The temperature on November 26, 1999 was between 5.0 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
May 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
November 11 » The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
November 26 » The 7.5 Mw Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.
December 22 » Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.
December 31 » The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
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