The temperature on May 17, 1935 was between -1.1 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
April 1 » India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
June 3 » One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
June 18 » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
August 31 » In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
December 12 » Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
Day of death February 18, 1988
The temperature on February 18, 1988 was between 4.1 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 13 » The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
April 14 » The USSSamuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
August 20 » The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
October 12 » Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
November 8 » U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.
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