The temperature on April 8, 1908 was between 2.1 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 13 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
June 18 » Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.
December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
Day of marriage December 8, 1928
The temperature on December 8, 1928 was between -2.1 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
Day of death September 13, 1966
The temperature on September 13, 1966 was between 10.9 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 12.3 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
June 13 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
July 10 » The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
August 10 » The Heron Road Bridge collapses while being built, killing nine workers in the deadliest construction accident in both Ottawa and Ontario.
August 22 » Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
November 24 » Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
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