The temperature on January 25, 1938 was between 5.0 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
March 18 » Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
Day of death April 4, 2008
The temperature on April 4, 2008 was between 5.8 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 11 » Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
May 30 » TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport, killing five people.
June 8 » At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
August 13 » Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
August 18 » President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns under threat of impeachment.
December 11 » Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
Day of burial April 9, 2008
The temperature on April 9, 2008 was between -2.5 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 14 » Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, resulting in six fatalities (including the gunman) and 21 injuries.
March 24 » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
April 22 » The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
May 31 » Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds
June 26 » A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
August 8 » A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
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