The temperature on January 15, 1909 was between 0.1 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Day of marriage April 13, 1934
The temperature on April 13, 1934 was between 4.4 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
August 11 » The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
Day of death July 30, 1962
The temperature on July 30, 1962 was between 5.8 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 5 » French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
March 4 » A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
November 7 » Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and First Lady of the 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies in her bed at her home in New York City.
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