The temperature on July 11, 1904 was between 7.6 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 14.5 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
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 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of marriage May 12, 1937
The temperature on May 12, 1937 was between 9.4 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
May 28 » Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
September 10 » Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
Day of death August 12, 1954
The temperature on August 12, 1954 was between 11.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
September 8 » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
November 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
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