The temperature on August 9, 1938 was between 15.8 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
November 14 » The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
Day of death April 10, 1940
The temperature on April 10, 1940 was between 1.4 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
May 27 » World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
June 10 » World War II: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
June 23 » Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
August 6 » Estonia is illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
August 20 » World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
November 7 » In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
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