The temperature on May 14, 1936 was between 6.5 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
June 26 » Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
July 23 » In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
August 9 » Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
December 13 » An annular solar eclipse occurred and was visible from Australia, New Zealand on December 14th (Monday), and Oeno Island in Pitcairn Islands on December 13th (Sunday).
Day of death April 16, 2013
The temperature on April 16, 2013 was between 5.0 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
April 16 » The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.
April 18 » A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
April 30 » Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
September 21 » Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
November 21 » Fifty-four people are killed when the roof of a shopping center collapses in Riga, Latvia.
December 16 » A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.
Day of cremation April 20, 2013
The temperature on April 20, 2013 was between -1.8 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
March 19 » A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
May 11 » Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.
June 3 » At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
July 20 » Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
September 2 » The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 PM at a cost of $6.4 billion, after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the old span.
October 12 » Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.
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