The temperature on August 4, 1909 was between 10.9 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
Day of marriage March 22, 1935
The temperature on March 22, 1935 was between 4.7 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
April 1 » India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
April 14 » The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
September 8 » US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
September 15 » Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
Day of death September 22, 1988
The temperature on September 22, 1988 was between 9.5 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 29 » Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
March 13 » The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
May 16 » A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
August 1 » A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
September 8 » Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
December 8 » A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
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