The temperature on August 9, 1936 was between 10.3 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Kashf-e hijab decree is made and immediately enforced by Reza Shah, Iran's head of state, banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public.
June 11 » The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
July 23 » In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
November 3 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States.
December 10 » Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
Day of death November 15, 2001
The temperature on November 15, 2001 was between -4.3 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (89%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 4 » BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
June 10 » Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
November 14 » War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
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