The temperature on December 9, 1904 was between -1.2 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
Day of death July 23, 1980
The temperature on July 23, 1980 was between 9.9 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 7 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
March 4 » Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
March 24 » El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
September 5 » The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
November 21 » A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
December 8 » Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City.
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