The temperature on January 31, 1906 was between -1.0 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
September 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
Day of marriage July 18, 1935
The temperature on July 18, 1935 was between 10.5 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
February 2 » Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
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.
February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
June 3 » One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
October 20 » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
Day of death July 16, 1985
The temperature on July 16, 1985 was between 12.8 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 20 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
July 20 » The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
October 10 » US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
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