The temperature on October 29, 1906 was between 5.4 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
Day of death December 24, 1988
The temperature on December 24, 1988 was between 3.8 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
May 29 » The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
July 3 » The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
September 13 » Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
November 16 » In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
December 9 » The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.
December 21 » The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.
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