The temperature on July 22, 1930 was between 10.6 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 13.1 mm of rain during 9.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 3 » Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
May 1 » "Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observatory Observation Circular. The name quickly catches on.
September 27 » Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.
October 5 » British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
December 16 » Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery, in Clinton, Indiana.
Day of marriage October 24, 1953
The temperature on October 24, 1953 was between 9.6 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (46%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
November 9 » Cambodia gains independence from France.
Day of death April 5, 2006
The temperature on April 5, 2006 was between -0.8 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
May 12 » Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
June 3 » The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
August 4 » A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
August 14 » Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
September 19 » The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
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