The temperature on August 26, 1936 was between 11.1 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 20 » King George V of the United Kingdom dies. His eldest son succeeds to the throne, becoming Edward VIII. The title Prince of Wales is not used for another 22 years.
June 11 » The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
June 26 » Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
October 26 » The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
Day of death January 8, 2003
The temperature on January 8, 2003 was between -8.8 °C and -3.9 °C and averaged -5.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 12 » The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
March 13 » An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.
April 9 » Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
July 13 » French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
August 19 » A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
December 17 » SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
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