The temperature on October 13, 1907 was between 7.4 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
January 29 » Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
Day of death August 5, 1983
The temperature on August 5, 1983 was between 13.0 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 27 » The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
February 22 » The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
July 15 » An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
July 19 » The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
September 12 » The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
September 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
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