The temperature on October 29, 1938 was between 0.4 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
Day of death December 31, 1997
The temperature on December 31, 1997 was between 4.8 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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March 22 » Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
April 3 » The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
May 15 » The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
September 6 » The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2⁄2 billion watched around the world on television.
September 26 » An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
October 25 » After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
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