The temperature on May 24, 1936 was between 7.9 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
March 16 » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
May 9 » Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
August 1 » The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
September 6 » Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.
September 10 » First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
Day of death November 28, 1937
The temperature on November 28, 1937 was between -1.0 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
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.
September 5 » Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
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