The temperature on August 30, 1936 was between 10.3 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
July 21 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia is constituted, establishing an anarcho-syndicalist economy in Catalonia.
August 3 » A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
December 10 » Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
Day of marriage February 28, 1969
The temperature on February 28, 1969 was between -0.4 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
March 13 » Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
July 24 » Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
August 11 » The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.
October 8 » The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
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