The temperature on August 19, 1936 was between 11.1 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 29.1 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
August 3 » A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
November 25 » In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
Day of death August 4, 1962
The temperature on August 4, 1962 was between 9.9 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
August 27 » The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
August 30 » Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
October 27 » By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
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