The temperature on July 31, 1910 was between 14.9 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
Day of marriage June 25, 1935
The temperature on June 25, 1935 was between 17.0 °C and 29.8 °C and averaged 23.0 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
May 14 » The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.
June 11 » Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
July 28 » First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
September 8 » US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
Day of death March 23, 1990
The temperature on March 23, 1990 was between 5.5 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 3 » United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.
February 14 » Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
May 4 » Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
July 27 » The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago.
July 30 » Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
September 29 » The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
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