The temperature on April 24, 1934 was between 4.9 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 26 » The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
April 12 » The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
August 11 » The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
November 30 » The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100mph.
Day of death July 14, 2000
The temperature on July 14, 2000 was between 10.4 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
April 22 » In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami.
August 8 » Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
September 28 » Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
November 17 » Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
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