The temperature on March 14, 1937 was between 0.9 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
June 11 » Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
Day of death November 30, 1968
The temperature on November 30, 1968 was between 5.5 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
May 12 » Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
August 13 » Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
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