The temperature on March 3, 1935 was between -1.2 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
November 9 » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
December 9 » The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
December 18 » The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
Day of marriage July 19, 1958
The temperature on July 19, 1958 was between 11.9 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 26 » The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
May 27 » First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
October 26 » Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
December 30 » The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension.
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