The temperature on October 13, 1931 was between 3.3 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
March 31 » An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.
Day of death April 2, 1960
The temperature on April 2, 1960 was between 3.5 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
May 3 » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
May 24 » Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
August 15 » Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
Day of burial April 5, 1960
The temperature on April 5, 1960 was between 4.5 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
July 20 » The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USSGeorge Washington, for the first time.
August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
September 8 » In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
September 14 » The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
November 9 » Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
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