The temperature on January 21, 1910 was between -2.3 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
November 20 » Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
Day of marriage March 18, 1935
The temperature on March 18, 1935 was between 4.3 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
February 13 » A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
September 8 » US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
September 15 » The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
October 20 » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
Day of death December 6, 1968
The temperature on December 6, 1968 was between -0.7 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
June 11 » Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
August 21 » Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
October 16 » Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
December 26 » The Communist Party of the Philippines is established by Jose Maria Sison, breaking away from the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930.
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