The temperature on June 22, 1934 was between 12.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.
May 19 » Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
July 2 » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
October 22 » In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
December 5 » Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
Day of death May 21, 1945
The temperature on May 21, 1945 was between 9.0 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 18.9 mm of rain during 9.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
January 5 » The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland.
January 18 » World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
May 7 » World War II: Last German U boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
August 21 » Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
September 12 » The People's Republic of Korea is proclaimed, bringing an end to Japanese rule over Korea.
December 4 » By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
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