The temperature on June 8, 1937 was between 14.5 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
July 24 » Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys".
September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
Day of marriage September 27, 1958
The temperature on September 27, 1958 was between 7.9 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 13 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
February 22 » Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
March 26 » The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
November 28 » Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
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