The temperature on September 21, 1935 was between 10.2 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
March 16 » Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
July 5 » The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
September 24 » Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
December 17 » First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
Day of death September 11, 1956
The temperature on September 11, 1956 was between 11.9 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 14.2 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 30 » African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
March 20 » Tunisia gains independence from France.
October 14 » Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
October 17 » The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
November 1 » The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
November 7 » Hungarian Revolution: János Kádár returns to Budapest in a Soviet armored convoy, officially taking office as the next Hungarian leader. By this point, most armed resistance has been defeated.
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