February 4 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
Day of marriage January 9, 1936
The temperature on January 9, 1936 was between 7.2 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
November 3 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States.
December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
Day of death July 10, 1982
The temperature on July 10, 1982 was between 16.2 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
May 25 » Falklands War: HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks.
June 18 » Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
July 23 » Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.
October 1 » Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan. On the same day, Sony released the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind.
November 12 » USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
December 7 » In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
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