The temperature on November 30, 1911 was between 5.4 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
April 27 » Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
June 22 » Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Day of marriage April 3, 1937
The temperature on April 3, 1937 was between 8.4 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
June 11 » Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
November 1 » Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
Day of death December 25, 1969
The temperature on December 25, 1969 was between 2.5 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 13 » Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
May 10 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
November 12 » Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
November 17 » Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
November 20 » Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
November 21 » U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
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