The temperature on May 24, 1936 was between 7.9 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
June 26 » Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
July 17 » Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
December 21 » First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.
Day of marriage November 12, 1957
The temperature on November 12, 1957 was between 6.6 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
July 28 » Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
October 14 » The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada.
November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Day of death April 25, 2008
The temperature on April 25, 2008 was between 5.5 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
March 19 » GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
April 30 » Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
May 30 » TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport, killing five people.
June 1 » A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
July 2 » Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
July 21 » Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first president of Nepal.
Day of cremation April 29, 2008
The temperature on April 29, 2008 was between 8.6 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (34%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
February 5 » A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
February 26 » The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
April 22 » The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
May 31 » Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds
August 1 » Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
December 22 » An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1billion US gallons (4,200,000m) of coal fly ash slurry.
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