The temperature on October 26, 1935 was between 1.8 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
May 29 » First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
October 19 » The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
December 18 » The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
December 30 » The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
Day of marriage February 15, 1964
The temperature on February 15, 1964 was between -1.8 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
January 25 » Blue Ribbon Sports, which would later become Nike, is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes.
April 1 » The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
April 21 » A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
May 20 » Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
September 21 » Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.
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