The temperature on November 2, 1904 was between 5.9 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
April 5 » The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh and Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death August 19, 1936
The temperature on August 19, 1936 was between 11.8 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 29.1 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 5 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
July 23 » In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
October 1 » Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
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