The temperature on February 5, 1937 was between 4.3 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 12.2 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
February 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
Day of death December 23, 1962
The temperature on December 23, 1962 was between -11.5 °C and -4.5 °C and averaged -7.9 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
August 30 » Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
October 8 » Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.
October 27 » An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
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