The temperature on May 13, 1936 was between 7.3 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 5 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
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.
August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
Day of death April 9, 2000
The temperature on April 9, 2000 was between 4.1 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 2 » First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
May 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
May 17 » Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
May 24 » Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
October 12 » The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
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