The temperature on August 24, 1937 was between 12.8 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
September 25 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
Day of death December 16, 2015
The temperature on December 16, 2015 was between 8.9 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 10.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
February 20 » Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
June 30 » A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.
August 5 » The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.
August 16 » Trigana Air Flight 267, an ATR 42, crashes in Oksibl, Pegunungan Bintang, killing all 54 people on board.
December 9 » The start of the thirty-sixth GCC summit in Riyadh business.
December 18 » Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.
Day of cremation December 21, 2015
The temperature on December 21, 2015 was between 8.4 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 15 » The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets
February 4 » TransAsia Airways Flight 235 with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing 43 people.
July 16 » Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
July 23 » NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
September 24 » At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
December 4 » A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people.
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