The temperature on February 7, 1935 was between -4.6 °C and 2.1 °C and averaged -1.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
March 16 » Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
May 29 » First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
December 27 » Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.
Day of death March 17, 1997
The temperature on March 17, 1997 was between 4.4 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 17 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
January 19 » Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
May 17 » Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
August 25 » Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
August 26 » Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.
September 11 » NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
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