The temperature on July 14, 1938 was between 9.1 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
March 18 » Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
July 3 » World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58km/h).
October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.
Day of death January 22, 1967
The temperature on January 22, 1967 was between -0.6 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
April 9 » The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
April 24 » Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
October 9 » A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
November 14 » The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
December 20 » A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 155mph on their New York Division, also present day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
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