The temperature on December 28, 1937 was between -2.8 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
May 12 » The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
July 5 » Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
Day of marriage January 5, 1963
The temperature on January 5, 1963 was between 0.2 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 10 » One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USSThresher sinks at sea.
June 5 » The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair".
August 15 » President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
September 25 » Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.
October 10 » France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
October 12 » After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
Day of death August 12, 1976
The temperature on August 12, 1976 was between 10.8 °C and 27.5 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (75%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 9 » Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
March 16 » British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
July 1 » Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
August 18 » In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the Axe murder incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
November 26 » "Anarchy in the U.K.", the debut single of the Sex Pistols, is released, heralding the arrival of punk rock
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