The temperature on December 27, 1908 was between -10.6 °C and -4.5 °C and averaged -7.8 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 21 » New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
August 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
October 14 » The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.
November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.
Day of marriage December 6, 1933
The temperature on December 6, 1933 was between -12.5 °C and -0.5 °C and averaged -6.3 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 3 » Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
February 15 » In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
March 20 » Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
June 17 » Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
August 27 » The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.
October 10 » A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
Day of death September 14, 1960
The temperature on September 14, 1960 was between 14.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
July 21 » Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female head of government
August 7 » Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
August 13 » The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
October 4 » An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
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