The temperature on May 20, 1911 was between 8.8 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
Day of marriage August 8, 1934
The temperature on August 8, 1934 was between 15.5 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
August 19 » The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
November 23 » An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
Day of death January 9, 1996
The temperature on January 9, 1996 was between 4.0 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 25 » Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the U.S.A.
February 1 » The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
October 31 » TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 99 people.
November 20 » A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
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