The temperature on August 15, 1931 was between 12.1 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
March 19 » Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
March 31 » An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
September 30 » Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
December 11 » Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.
Day of marriage September 10, 1959
The temperature on September 10, 1959 was between 10.5 °C and 28.4 °C and averaged 19.1 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 28 » Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
April 8 » The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
May 19 » The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
July 29 » First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
September 15 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
Day of death March 26, 1997
The temperature on March 26, 1997 was between 5.3 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
May 25 » A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
July 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP A. Thangathurai is shot dead at Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College in Trincomalee.
August 29 » Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
September 26 » An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
November 12 » Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
Day of burial March 29, 1997
The temperature on March 29, 1997 was between 4.6 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
July 6 » The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.
September 14 » Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
September 19 » The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
September 26 » A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
December 1 » Heath High School shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky
December 30 » In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
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