The temperature on June 17, 1907 was between 5.1 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
July 29 » Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
Day of marriage November 14, 1933
The temperature on November 14, 1933 was between 0.9 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
January 24 » The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
February 10 » In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
March 15 » Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship.
August 7 » The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre.
August 25 » The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
October 7 » Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of five French airlines.
Day of death July 27, 1962
The temperature on July 27, 1962 was between 8.9 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
June 11 » Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
July 23 » Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
August 5 » Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
October 14 » The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
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