The temperature on October 25, 1910 was between 1.5 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (23%). 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.
May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
Day of death September 3, 1979
The temperature on September 3, 1979 was between 11.6 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 » Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
September 1 » The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000mi).
September 13 » South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
September 14 » Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
October 6 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
October 17 » Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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