The temperature on February 4, 1938 was between 4.3 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.
Day of death October 17, 2018
The temperature on October 17, 2018 was between 8.2 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 4 » Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
April 18 » King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.
May 25 » The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
October 27 » A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring 6, including 4 police officers.
November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
Day of cremation October 24, 2018
The temperature on October 24, 2018 was between 12.2 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii caused widespread panic in the state.
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.
February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
May 9 » The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
October 17 » The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
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