The temperature on November 6, 1934 was between 6.1 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 7.4 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 6 » Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
July 20 » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
Day of death January 19, 1979
The temperature on January 19, 1979 was between -4.9 °C and -0.5 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 16 » The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
March 26 » Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
April 1 » Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
June 4 » Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
July 12 » The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
October 1 » The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
Day of cremation January 24, 1979
The temperature on January 24, 1979 was between -1.7 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 11 » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
April 4 » Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
July 19 » The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
September 16 » The Sugarhill Gang were formed and rappers delight was released.
October 1 » Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
October 12 » The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the western Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Tip.
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