The temperature on May 18, 1938 was between 7.2 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
November 14 » The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
Day of death August 10, 2009
The temperature on August 10, 2009 was between 10.6 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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 30 » Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
July 5 » A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
July 5 » The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
September 29 » The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills 189 and injures hundreds.
October 9 » First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
December 3 » A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
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