The temperature on May 21, 1937 was between 8.8 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
April 9 » The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
May 6 » Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
Day of death June 29, 1981
The temperature on June 29, 1981 was between 9.0 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 10.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
January 18 » Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
March 1 » Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
March 27 » The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
July 7 » US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
August 3 » Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
November 1 » Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.
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