residence place: Dare, North Carolina birth date: 3 Jan 1935 birth place: Chowan, North Carolina Name: Rufus Miles Smithson Jr death date: 15 Jul 1981 death place: Pasquotank, North Carolina, USA
The temperature on January 3, 1935 was between 5.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
February 26 » Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
September 2 » The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.
September 15 » Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
September 17 » The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.
Day of death July 15, 1981
The temperature on July 15, 1981 was between 13.2 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
May 13 » Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
July 29 » A worldwide television audience of over 700million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
August 24 » Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
September 21 » Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
November 11 » Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
December 17 » American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
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