The temperature on February 18, 1937 was between 1.5 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 11 » The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.
April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
May 6 » Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
June 14 » Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
September 25 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
Day of death September 5, 1958
The temperature on September 5, 1958 was between 13.1 °C and 26.4 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
April 26 » Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
July 25 » The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
November 28 » First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
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