The temperature on March 5, 1909 was between -9.4 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -2.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
Day of marriage May 7, 1937
The temperature on May 7, 1937 was between 5.0 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
April 1 » The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
July 6 » Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
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 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
Day of death January 2, 1984
The temperature on January 2, 1984 was between 4.5 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 6 » In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.
April 19 » Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
May 8 » Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
July 25 » Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
September 7 » An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen.
November 19 » San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
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