The temperature on May 13, 1937 was between 8.1 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
March 18 » Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
June 11 » Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
Day of death May 31, 2001
The temperature on May 31, 2001 was between 9.1 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 1 » Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
September 4 » Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
December 13 » Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.
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