The temperature on August 9, 1937 was between 11.2 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 11 » The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.
May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
July 24 » Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys".
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
Day of marriage June 1, 1956
The temperature on June 1, 1956 was between 8.3 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 19 » Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
April 30 » Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
July 16 » Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; due to changing economics, all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
August 27 » The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
September 27 » USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
December 19 » Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
Day of death February 8, 2000
The temperature on February 8, 2000 was between 6.3 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 6 » Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
May 11 » Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
June 21 » Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
August 12 » The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
October 31 » Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff from Taipei, killing 83.
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