The temperature on May 16, 1909 was between 0.9 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Day of marriage January 20, 1934
The temperature on January 20, 1934 was between 0.5 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 26 » The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
April 12 » The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
August 19 » The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
Day of death December 23, 1971
The temperature on December 23, 1971 was between 4.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
February 24 » The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
March 25 » The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
May 27 » Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
July 12 » The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
September 15 » The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island.
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