The temperature on October 23, 1934 was between 8.8 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 23 » The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
June 15 » The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
September 1 » The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, is released to movie theatres.
September 22 » The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
Day of death June 14, 1937
The temperature on June 14, 1937 was between 12.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
July 5 » Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
July 24 » Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys".
September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
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