The temperature on July 16, 1937 was between 13.4 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
January 19 » Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
July 29 » Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
Day of death August 8, 2000
The temperature on August 8, 2000 was between 13.0 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
May 7 » Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
June 13 » Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
October 31 » Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
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