The temperature on April 22, 1934 was between 5.1 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
January 15 » The 8.0 Mw Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people.
February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
July 2 » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
August 19 » The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
Day of death May 2, 2015
The temperature on May 2, 2015 was between 0.4 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 7 » Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
February 17 » Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
February 22 » A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
July 16 » Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
August 8 » Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
October 1 » A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.
Day of burial May 8, 2015
The temperature on May 8, 2015 was between 7.8 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (39%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
February 22 » A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
May 18 » At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar.
September 24 » At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
October 14 » A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.
October 26 » A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan, killing 398 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.
October 31 » Metrojet Flight 9268 is bombed over the northern Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
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