The temperature on June 1, 1938 was between 13.4 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
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.
Day of marriage March 6, 1961
The temperature on March 6, 1961 was between -1.7 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 9 » Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
April 20 » Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
April 23 » Algiers putsch by French generals.
May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
May 25 » Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
Day of death April 18, 2018
The temperature on April 18, 2018 was between 6.9 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (91%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 14 » A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 15 injuries.
March 23 » President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.
April 23 » A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
May 25 » Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
October 17 » Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.
December 31 » Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-storey building collapsed in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.
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