The temperature on September 20, 1935 was between 14.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 17.2 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
May 27 » New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
June 25 » Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
September 15 » The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
September 24 » Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
October 20 » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
Day of marriage June 17, 1960
The temperature on June 17, 1960 was between 13.6 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 19.1 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
February 13 » With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
May 27 » In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
June 19 » The first NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
November 2 » Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
Day of death January 29, 1999
The temperature on January 29, 1999 was between -5.5 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
February 23 » Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
April 14 » NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
November 12 » The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured.
December 22 » Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.
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