The temperature on March 19, 1934 was between 0.8 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
March 24 » United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
March 26 » The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
May 19 » Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
September 1 » The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, is released to movie theatres.
November 30 » The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100mph.
Day of death March 20, 2012
The temperature on March 20, 2012 was between 3.4 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
February 15 » Three hundred sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
February 22 » A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
February 26 » Trayvon Martin was shot and killed at the age of 17 in Sanford, Florida.
April 16 » The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
September 18 » Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England.
December 3 » At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
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