The temperature on November 22, 1937 was between -2.4 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
May 28 » Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
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 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
September 25 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
Day of death December 8, 2015
The temperature on December 8, 2015 was between 7.3 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
June 17 » Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
August 8 » Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
September 9 » Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
September 14 » The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
October 14 » A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.
November 24 » A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria-Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
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