The temperature on December 31, 1936 was between -0.5 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
July 22 » Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community.
August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
Day of marriage October 25, 1958
The temperature on October 25, 1958 was between 10.9 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
April 13 » American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
July 1 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
November 28 » First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
December 5 » The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
Day of death February 20, 2018
The temperature on February 20, 2018 was between -3.8 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 18 » King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.
May 25 » Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
May 25 » The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
July 25 » As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
September 20 » At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.
November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
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