The temperature on November 7, 1937 was between 4.3 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
July 6 » Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
November 1 » Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
Day of death June 8, 1989
The temperature on June 8, 1989 was between 7.9 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
June 16 » Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.
August 2 » A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.
October 15 » Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
December 16 » U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.
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