April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
Day of marriage September 28, 1937
The temperature on September 28, 1937 was between 10.1 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 1 » The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
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 death August 23, 1967
The temperature on August 23, 1967 was between 12.2 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
February 4 » Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
March 6 » Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
March 26 » Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
June 5 » The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
October 2 » Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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