The temperature on August 8, 1935 was between 11.1 °C and 28.1 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
May 24 » The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
July 20 » Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
September 17 » The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.
September 30 » The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
Day of marriage February 8, 1954
The temperature on February 8, 1954 was between -3 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
July 5 » Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
July 21 » First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
Day of death May 15, 2007
The temperature on May 15, 2007 was between 7.0 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
April 3 » Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
June 8 » Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MVPasha Bulker.
June 19 » The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
September 14 » Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
September 18 » Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
October 15 » Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
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