The temperature on January 8, 1904 was between -0.9 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
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 marriage June 28, 1927
The temperature on June 28, 1927 was between 7.1 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
Day of death August 14, 1993
The temperature on August 14, 1993 was between 10.5 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 19 » Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
February 28 » The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four ATF agents and six Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
March 11 » Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
March 12 » Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.
September 13 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
November 23 » Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
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