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 13 » A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
March 16 » Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
March 23 » Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
April 8 » The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
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.
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
April 26 » SSIdeal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
May 20 » In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
October 8 » The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
October 19 » The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
October 30 » Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.
December 2 » The Granma reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
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