The temperature on July 4, 1904 was between 10.8 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
Day of marriage May 18, 1928
The temperature on May 18, 1928 was between 3.7 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
Day of death August 6, 1978
The temperature on August 6, 1978 was between 11.3 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 19 » The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
February 16 » The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
June 1 » The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
June 21 » The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
December 27 » Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.
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