The temperature on February 4, 1938 was between 4.0 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 30 » The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
Day of marriage July 3, 1957
The temperature on July 3, 1957 was between 15.6 °C and 28.1 °C and averaged 20.0 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
March 29 » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
Day of death September 13, 1993
The temperature on September 13, 1993 was between 9.3 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 14.8 mm of rain during 12.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 3 » In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
March 12 » Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.
March 27 » Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
April 8 » The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations.
September 13 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
November 18 » In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule.
Day of burial September 17, 1993
The temperature on September 17, 1993 was between 4.7 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 20 » Bill Clinton is inaugurated the 42nd President of the United States of America.
May 24 » Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico.
July 9 » The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
September 24 » The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
November 17 » In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.
December 15 » The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
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