The temperature on August 1, 1935 was between 9.7 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
May 29 » First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
June 25 » Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
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.
October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
Day of death August 2, 2008
The temperature on August 2, 2008 was between 13.1 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 19.1 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
April 6 » The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.
May 2 » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
June 8 » At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
July 2 » Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
August 30 » A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
November 14 » The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
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