The temperature on May 9, 1935 was between 3.0 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
May 14 » The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.
July 1 » Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
August 31 » In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
September 8 » US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
Day of marriage August 15, 1958
The temperature on August 15, 1958 was between 16.3 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 13 » During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
July 1 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
October 28 » John XXIII is elected Pope.
December 5 » The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
December 9 » The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
Day of death March 10, 2005
The temperature on March 10, 2005 was between -1.7 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
April 26 » Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
April 27 » Airbus A380 aircraft had its maiden test flight.
May 18 » A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
July 26 » Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
October 15 » A planned neo-Nazi protest against African-American street gangs sets off a riot in Toledo, Ohio. Twenty-nine people are arrested.
October 28 » I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is indicted due to his involvement in the Plame affair.
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