The temperature on April 11, 1908 was between 2.2 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
July 26 » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
October 1 » Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
Day of death November 17, 1962
The temperature on November 17, 1962 was between -1.7 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
August 31 » Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
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 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
September 30 » Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.
November 17 » President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
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