The temperature on August 7, 1906 was between 8.1 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
Day of death August 23, 1962
The temperature on August 23, 1962 was between 10.7 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
September 27 » Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
October 20 » China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
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