The temperature on November 16, 1936 was between 4.4 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
May 9 » Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
August 10 » Spanish Civil War: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is dissolved by the Spanish Republic.
August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
September 9 » The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRPAfonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
December 11 » Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India, becomes effective.
Day of death September 3, 1979
The temperature on September 3, 1979 was between 11.6 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
August 5 » In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
October 1 » The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
November 1 » Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico.
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