The temperature on November 30, 1936 was between 5.6 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
July 22 » Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community.
September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
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.
November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
December 21 » First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.
Day of death April 12, 2009
The temperature on April 12, 2009 was between 8.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 9 » In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
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.
May 18 » The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
June 12 » Analog television stations (excluding low-powered stations) switch to digital television following the DTV Delay Act.
September 9 » The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
September 29 » The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills 189 and injures hundreds.
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