The temperature on April 24, 1937 was between 3.0 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
March 2 » The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
Day of death March 24, 1942
The temperature on March 24, 1942 was between -2.3 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
April 19 » World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
August 21 » World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
October 11 » World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
October 28 » The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
November 19 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
December 24 » World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria.
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