The temperature on September 24, 1937 was between 3.3 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
Day of death September 10, 2012
The temperature on September 10, 2012 was between 13.0 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
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 19 » The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
February 1 » Seventy-four people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al Masry and Al Ahly in the city of Port Said.
April 11 » A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
June 23 » Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
July 30 » A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300million people without power in northern India.
December 14 » Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
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