The temperature on October 30, 1934 was between 3.2 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
August 19 » The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
September 22 » The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
October 9 » An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
Day of death October 24, 1987
The temperature on October 24, 1987 was between 4.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
May 3 » A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
May 8 » The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
July 1 » The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
August 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
November 15 » In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
November 29 » North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
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