The temperature on April 6, 1937 was between 4.5 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
July 2 » Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
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.
November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
Day of death March 15, 1983
The temperature on March 15, 1983 was between 1.8 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
April 4 » Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
July 7 » Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
September 12 » The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
October 25 » The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
December 31 » In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
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