The temperature on August 29, 1937 was between 10.9 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
Day of death August 24, 1984
The temperature on August 24, 1984 was between 16.0 °C and 28.8 °C and averaged 22.7 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
January 10 » Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
May 27 » The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
September 14 » Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
December 19 » The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
December 23 » After experiencing an engine fire, Aeroflot Flight 3519 attempts to make an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk International Airport but crashes, killing 110 of the 111 people on board.
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