The temperature on October 2, 1934 was between 13.2 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
March 24 » United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
May 15 » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
August 11 » The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
Day of death March 9, 1937
The temperature on March 9, 1937 was between -3.6 °C and -0.7 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 6.3 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
July 6 » Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
November 1 » Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
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