The temperature on May 22, 1935 was between 7.2 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
July 1 » Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
September 8 » US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
November 3 » George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.
November 22 » The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
Day of death July 9, 1942
The temperature on July 9, 1942 was between 12.6 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
May 7 » World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
May 12 » World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
July 19 » World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
July 22 » Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.
September 12 » World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Japanese troops.
October 28 » The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
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