The temperature on August 3, 1929 was between 4.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 1 » The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
Day of marriage August 28, 1957
The temperature on August 28, 1957 was between 8.9 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 11 » United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
May 22 » South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
June 27 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
July 28 » Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
September 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
Day of death May 6, 2001
The temperature on May 6, 2001 was between 6.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 3 » The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
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