The temperature on November 19, 1907 was between 4.2 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
August 29 » The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
October 27 » Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
Day of death March 8, 1964
The temperature on March 8, 1964 was between -7.0 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 17 » Gabonese president Léon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
March 14 » Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
April 13 » At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
May 2 » First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
August 16 » Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Dương Văn Minh with General Nguyễn Khánh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
November 21 » Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.
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