The temperature on May 21, 1938 was between 6.5 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
Day of death August 21, 2013
The temperature on August 21, 2013 was between 10.4 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
January 1 » At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
January 10 » More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
May 20 » An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
June 30 » Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.
August 19 » The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
October 15 » The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 die.
Day of cremation August 29, 2013
The temperature on August 29, 2013 was between 9.2 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (57%). 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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 29 » SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.
April 17 » An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
June 26 » Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
September 6 » It was announced that Leeuwarden would become cultural capital of Europe of 2018 together with Valletta.
November 13 » 4 World Trade Center officially opens.
December 15 » The South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron.
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