The temperature on August 13, 1935 was between 12.7 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain during 10.9 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
July 1 » Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
August 15 » Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
September 2 » The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.
September 3 » Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300mph.
September 15 » The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
December 12 » Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
Day of marriage October 20, 1958
The temperature on October 20, 1958 was between 8.7 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
April 21 » United Airlines Flight 736 collides into a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
May 24 » United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
July 26 » Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
Day of death November 9, 2001
The temperature on November 9, 2001 was between -2.5 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
April 1 » Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
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.
November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
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