The temperature on July 29, 1910 was between 10.9 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
October 14 » English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
Day of marriage May 19, 1934
The temperature on May 19, 1934 was between 2.6 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
September 18 » The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
Day of death February 2, 2001
The temperature on February 2, 2001 was between -0.1 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 11.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The 7.7 Mw Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
March 4 » BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
May 3 » The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
September 17 » The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
October 17 » Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
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