The temperature on May 3, 1910 was between 0.8 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
August 29 » The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
November 21 » Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).
Day of marriage December 30, 1936
The temperature on December 30, 1936 was between 0.6 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
March 29 » Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in the 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum.
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
November 20 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
Day of death February 4, 1970
The temperature on February 4, 1970 was between 1.3 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
April 24 » China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
May 15 » Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
May 26 » The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
July 31 » Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
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