The temperature on August 28, 1937 was between 13.7 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
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.
June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
October 11 » The Duke and Duchess of Windsor tour Nazi Germany for 12 days and meet Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.
Day of death April 26, 2005
The temperature on April 26, 2005 was between 4.7 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
April 24 » Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
July 26 » Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
October 12 » The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
October 30 » The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
December 6 » An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 94 on board and 12 more on the ground.
December 11 » The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.
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