The temperature on April 28, 1911 was between 5.8 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
Day of marriage May 29, 1937
The temperature on May 29, 1937 was between 9.6 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
May 12 » The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
November 1 » Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
Day of death April 3, 1991
The temperature on April 3, 1991 was between 5.6 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 15 » Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system.
January 20 » Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
March 16 » The airplane carrying eight members of Reba McEntire's touring band crashed on the side of Otay Mountain.
August 16 » Indian Airlines Flight 257, a Boeing 737-200, crashes during approach to Imphal Airport, killing all 69 people on board.
August 29 » Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
October 7 » Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb, Croatia.
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