The temperature on September 20, 1937 was between 9.0 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 12.3 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
June 14 » Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
Day of death May 27, 1998
The temperature on May 27, 1998 was between 8.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 1 » Following a currency reform, Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
July 6 » Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport.
August 17 » Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.
August 30 » Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
October 29 » Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
November 9 » Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
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