The temperature on February 13, 1904 was between 5.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
Day of marriage October 12, 1934
The temperature on October 12, 1934 was between 10.9 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
June 26 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
November 30 » The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100mph.
Day of death March 22, 2005
The temperature on March 22, 2005 was between 8.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 3 » Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
March 28 » An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured.
April 26 » Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
July 2 » The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
July 29 » Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
December 18 » The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
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