The temperature on June 8, 1935 was between 10.0 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
May 25 » Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
May 31 » A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
October 10 » In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.
December 5 » Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
December 17 » First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
Day of marriage April 21, 1960
The temperature on April 21, 1960 was between 3.9 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
February 16 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSTriton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
August 12 » Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
August 16 » Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
September 5 » Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
November 3 » The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
Day of death January 20, 2018
The temperature on January 20, 2018 was between 0.8 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
January 31 » Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
April 18 » King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.
April 23 » A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
December 31 » Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-storey building collapsed in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.
Day of burial January 25, 2018
The temperature on January 25, 2018 was between 5.0 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
March 4 » Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
May 9 » The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
May 25 » The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
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