The temperature on December 6, 1938 was between 1.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
Day of death June 5, 2012
The temperature on June 5, 2012 was between 3.3 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
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.
March 20 » At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
April 20 » One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
May 19 » Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others.
June 16 » China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
June 23 » Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
September 11 » The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
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