The temperature on May 18, 1909 was between 4.1 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
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 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
Day of death March 30, 1968
The temperature on March 30, 1968 was between 4.0 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
January 30 » Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
March 2 » Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.
May 25 » The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.
July 18 » Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
November 11 » Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
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