The temperature on June 20, 1910 was between 9.8 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
April 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
June 19 » The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of marriage November 10, 1931
The temperature on November 10, 1931 was between 6.8 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
March 26 » Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
May 1 » The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.
December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.
Day of death August 17, 1959
The temperature on August 17, 1959 was between 8.8 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 30 » The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.
April 25 » The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
June 14 » Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
June 14 » Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
October 21 » In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.
December 3 » The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
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