The temperature on November 21, 1938 was between 4.5 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 14.2 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
Day of marriage February 18, 1961
The temperature on February 18, 1961 was between 0.7 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
August 21 » American country music singer Patsy Cline returns to record producer Owen Bradley's studio in Nashville, Tennessee to record her vocals to Willie Nelson's "Crazy", which would become her signature song.
September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
September 16 » The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
October 20 » The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
Day of death January 24, 2013
The temperature on January 24, 2013 was between -6.9 °C and -0.4 °C and averaged -3.5 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
June 23 » Militants stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan killing ten climbers, and a local guide.
June 23 » Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
July 7 » A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
August 14 » Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
August 15 » At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
December 16 » A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.
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