The temperature on April 23, 1936 was between -1.3 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 27 » The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
July 20 » The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
December 5 » The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
Day of marriage January 3, 1962
The temperature on January 3, 1962 was between -6.2 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
March 16 » A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
August 5 » Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
Day of death October 12, 1997
The temperature on October 12, 1997 was between 5.8 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
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March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
June 13 » A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
July 6 » The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.
August 25 » Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
September 18 » The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
September 18 » United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1billion to the United Nations.
Day of cremation October 17, 1997
The temperature on October 17, 1997 was between 9.3 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
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