The temperature on June 6, 1938 was between 5.4 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
November 14 » The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
Day of marriage September 7, 1965
The temperature on September 7, 1965 was between 4.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
July 29 » Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
August 9 » Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
August 29 » The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
October 21 » Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
December 30 » Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
Day of death July 15, 1997
The temperature on July 15, 1997 was between 11.9 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
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February 22 » In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
June 2 » In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
July 27 » About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
December 1 » Heath High School shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky
December 19 » SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
December 27 » Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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