The temperature on December 4, 1938 was between -0.8 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
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 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
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 May 12, 1940
The temperature on May 12, 1940 was between 2.4 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
April 23 » The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
July 2 » Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
July 19 » Field Marshal Ceremony: First occasion in World War II that Adolf Hitler appoints field marshals due to military achievements.
November 10 » The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.
November 12 » World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.
November 27 » In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents.
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