The temperature on August 10, 1938 was between 15.9 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
March 18 » Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
November 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
Day of death March 5, 2000
The temperature on March 5, 2000 was between -0.4 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 6 » Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
May 7 » Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
June 7 » The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
October 5 » Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
November 17 » A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
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