The temperature on January 17, 1904 was between -1.4 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
Day of death July 7, 1971
The temperature on July 7, 1971 was between 11.1 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 15.6 hours of sunshine (94%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 8 » The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.
July 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
August 22 » J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
November 22 » In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
November 28 » Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
December 7 » The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Mukti Bahini.
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