The temperature on April 15, 1937 was between 7.1 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
September 5 » Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
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 July 28, 2013
The temperature on July 28, 2013 was between 14.6 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
April 3 » More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
April 9 » At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
June 16 » A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
September 6 » It was announced that Leeuwarden would become cultural capital of Europe of 2018 together with Valletta.
October 13 » A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 and injuring more than 110.
October 15 » The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 die.
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