The temperature on July 29, 1904 was between 9.9 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of marriage April 22, 1930
The temperature on April 22, 1930 was between 2.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
January 6 » The first diesel-powered automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
February 18 » While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
March 13 » The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory.
May 1 » "Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observatory Observation Circular. The name quickly catches on.
September 8 » 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
September 17 » The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.
Day of death February 28, 1965
The temperature on February 28, 1965 was between -0.5 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 12 » Malcolm X visits Smethwick in Birmingham following the racially-charged 1964 United Kingdom general election.
February 15 » A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
March 21 » Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
October 28 » Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
December 4 » The Grateful Dead's first concert performance under this new name.
December 15 » Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
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