The temperature on September 23, 1910 was between 8.7 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
May 6 » George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
Day of marriage June 29, 1935
The temperature on June 29, 1935 was between 10.2 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
March 21 » Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
April 1 » India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
October 20 » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
Day of death January 24, 1996
The temperature on January 24, 1996 was between -6.2 °C and -1.5 °C and averaged -3.6 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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January 27 » Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
February 17 » The 8.2 Mw Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.
April 3 » Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.
September 27 » Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.
November 23 » Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
Day of burial January 29, 1996
The temperature on January 29, 1996 was between -6.2 °C and 0.9 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (89%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
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