The temperature on December 4, 1904 was between 5.0 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
Day of death August 3, 1958
The temperature on August 3, 1958 was between 10.8 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 5 » A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
March 17 » The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
August 3 » The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
November 28 » Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
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