The temperature on July 10, 1936 was between 11.1 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
July 20 » The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
October 1 » Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
October 27 » Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
November 25 » In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
Christening day September 6, 1936
The temperature on September 6, 1936 was between 13.5 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
August 10 » Spanish Civil War: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is dissolved by the Spanish Republic.
October 26 » The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
November 23 » Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
December 7 » Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
Day of death March 20, 1992
The temperature on March 20, 1992 was between 8.2 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 4 » A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
May 5 » Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia (Corsica): Eighteen people are killed and 2,300 are injured when one of the terraces collapses before a football match between SC Bastia and Olympique de Marseille.
May 23 » Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
September 17 » An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin.
October 4 » The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
December 4 » Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
Day of burial March 21, 1992
The temperature on March 21, 1992 was between 5.2 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
May 13 » Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
October 17 » Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
November 16 » The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
November 21 » A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over the next two days the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over 100 tornadoes.
December 3 » A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
December 6 » The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people.
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