The temperature on September 6, 1934 was between 5.7 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
July 20 » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
November 23 » An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
Day of death February 27, 2018
The temperature on February 27, 2018 was between -6.4 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -3.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
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 » Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
July 25 » As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
September 28 » The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
Day of burial March 5, 2018
The temperature on March 5, 2018 was between 3.2 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (82%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 3 » For the first time in history all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
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.
February 14 » A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 15 injuries.
October 17 » The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
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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