The temperature on April 7, 1934 was between 6.2 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
February 9 » The Balkan Entente is formed.
June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
August 2 » Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
September 18 » The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
Day of death April 20, 1961
The temperature on April 20, 1961 was between 8.5 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (27%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 8 » In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
June 1 » The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.
October 30 » Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
November 11 » Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
December 2 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
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