The temperature on March 15, 1911 was between -1.2 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
December 14 » Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
Day of marriage August 22, 1934
The temperature on August 22, 1934 was between 9.4 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
February 2 » The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
March 26 » The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
September 22 » The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
Day of death April 11, 1957
The temperature on April 11, 1957 was between 0.6 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
January 14 » Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
April 5 » In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first Chief Minister.
May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
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