The temperature on May 3, 1938 was between 4.9 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.
Day of death October 4, 1961
The temperature on October 4, 1961 was between 10.7 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
May 25 » Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
September 10 » In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
October 1 » The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
November 18 » United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
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