The temperature on February 10, 1936 was between -7.4 °C and -0.9 °C and averaged -4.2 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
August 4 » Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
September 9 » The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRPAfonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
November 12 » In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
Day of marriage May 8, 1958
The temperature on May 8, 1958 was between 14.2 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
April 21 » United Airlines Flight 736 collides into a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
July 29 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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.
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