The temperature on February 1, 1934 was between -3.2 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.
February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.
October 22 » In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
December 5 » Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
Day of death September 6, 1998
The temperature on September 6, 1998 was between 12.6 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
July 24 » Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
August 15 » Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.
October 12 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
October 16 » Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
October 29 » The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
November 19 » Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5million.
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