The temperature on April 9, 1934 was between 5.3 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
Day of marriage January 22, 1959
The temperature on January 22, 1959 was between 7.4 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 9 » The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
February 16 » Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
March 18 » The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
July 21 » Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
August 7 » Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
October 12 » At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
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