The temperature on August 4, 1938 was between 16.3 °C and 31.3 °C and averaged 23.6 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
April 30 » The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
Day of death September 2, 2001
The temperature on September 2, 2001 was between 9.3 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 9 » In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
June 10 » Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
October 8 » A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
October 19 » SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
October 22 » Grand Theft Auto III is released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games, as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.
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