The temperature on January 31, 1930 was between -0.9 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 3 » Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
February 16 » The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
March 29 » Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
August 16 » The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
September 27 » Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.
October 27 » Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
Day of death July 14, 1953
The temperature on July 14, 1953 was between 13.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 24.3 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
June 8 » An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
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