The temperature on August 26, 1936 was between 10.2 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 5 » First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
March 29 » Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in the 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum.
June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
November 3 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States.
December 23 » Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional Defence Council of Aragon.
December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
Day of death February 7, 2001
The temperature on February 7, 2001 was between 9.0 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
April 1 » Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
April 7 » Mars Odyssey is launched.
June 21 » A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
December 12 » Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision on upgrading the Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng nature reserve to a national park, providing information on projects for the conservation and development of the park and revised maps.
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