The temperature on April 3, 1904 was between 5.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
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 May 21, 1927
The temperature on May 21, 1927 was between 8.9 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
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