The temperature on August 27, 1904 was between 9.6 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
Day of marriage July 23, 1941
The temperature on July 23, 1941 was between 9.8 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
April 23 » World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
May 27 » World War II: The German battleshipBismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
October 9 » A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
December 7 » World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
December 9 » World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
December 19 » World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres.
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