The temperature on April 20, 1937 was between 5.0 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 22.7 mm of rain during 11.0 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
October 11 » The Duke and Duchess of Windsor tour Nazi Germany for 12 days and meet Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.
November 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
Day of death January 27, 2003
The temperature on January 27, 2003 was between 8.2 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 12 » Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
April 13 » A bus near the Vale of Tempe, Greece was involved in a major vehicle accident with a truck and multiple cars, leaving 21 students in the tenth grade of Makrochori, Imathia High School dead and nine injured during their return to their homes from a trip to Athens.
April 16 » The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
August 27 » Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005km) distant.
October 4 » The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
December 9 » A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
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