The temperature on March 15, 1933 was between 4.0 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
February 17 » Newsweek magazine is first published.
March 10 » The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area leaving around 108 people dead.
September 12 » Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
November 7 » Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
November 16 » The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
December 15 » The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
Day of death May 3, 1960
The temperature on May 3, 1960 was between -1.3 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
February 19 » China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
April 4 » France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
April 25 » The United States Navy submarine USSTriton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
June 26 » The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
August 19 » Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
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