The temperature on October 21, 1904 was between 7.5 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
Day of death April 5, 1992
The temperature on April 5, 1992 was between -1 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 20 » Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96 people on board.
February 4 » A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
April 9 » A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
September 2 » The 7.7 Mw Nicaragua earthquake affected the west coast of Nicaragua. With a Ms–Mw disparity of half a unit, this tsunami earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused most of the damage and casualties, with at least 116 killed. Typical runup heights were 3–8 meters (9.8–26.2ft).
September 17 » An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin.
September 28 » A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.
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