The temperature on December 27, 1934 was between 5.6 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 16 » The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
April 12 » The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
September 1 » The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, is released to movie theatres.
December 5 » Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
Day of death June 4, 2008
The temperature on June 4, 2008 was between 11.9 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
January 18 » The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
February 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
May 2 » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
July 1 » Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
August 17 » American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
September 24 » Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa
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