The temperature on January 30, 1937 was between -7.4 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -3.4 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
May 7 » Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
June 11 » Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
Day of marriage May 10, 1962
The temperature on May 10, 1962 was between 7.8 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
July 23 » Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
September 6 » Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
September 27 » Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
Day of death January 12, 1999
The temperature on January 12, 1999 was between -2.1 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
June 12 » Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
August 9 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
August 26 » Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
December 5 » Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first to be elected to the role.
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