The temperature on February 1, 1931 was between 0.3 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
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 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
March 5 » The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
July 1 » United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
Day of marriage December 21, 1955
The temperature on December 21, 1955 was between -0.6 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
May 9 » Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
September 20 » The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
November 1 » The Vietnam War begins.
December 14 » Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109.
Day of death March 1, 2001
The temperature on March 1, 2001 was between 0.8 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 15 » The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
March 4 » BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
September 20 » In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
October 1 » Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, killing 38.
December 12 » Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision on upgrading the Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng nature reserve to a national park, providing information on projects for the conservation and development of the park and revised maps.
Day of burial March 6, 2001
The temperature on March 6, 2001 was between -2.2 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (92%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 29 » Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
July 4 » Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
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.
July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
October 8 » A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
November 14 » War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
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