The temperature on June 27, 1904 was between 6.5 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
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 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
Day of death February 22, 1971
The temperature on February 22, 1971 was between 1.9 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
March 7 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
April 5 » In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
May 1 » Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
May 13 » Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the Demra massacre.
July 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
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