The temperature on August 9, 1937 was between 11.2 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
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.
August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
September 10 » Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
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.
Day of death October 10, 1982
The temperature on October 10, 1982 was between 9.7 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 26.1 mm of rain during 9.6 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
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.
February 15 » The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
March 14 » The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.
May 12 » During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
September 1 » The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
November 12 » USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
December 7 » In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
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