The temperature on April 18, 1937 was between 6.7 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
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.
August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
September 10 » Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
Day of marriage May 13, 1971
The temperature on May 13, 1971 was between 11.2 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
April 7 » President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
July 12 » The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
August 18 » Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
September 13 » State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.
November 28 » Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Day of death August 22, 2000
The temperature on August 22, 2000 was between 8.6 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
May 11 » Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
July 17 » During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.
August 23 » Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
November 15 » Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
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