The temperature on May 2, 1904 was between 8.6 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
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.
April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
Day of death December 26, 1965
The temperature on December 26, 1965 was between -0.8 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 21 » Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a talk at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
March 23 » NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
May 27 » Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
August 15 » The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
September 9 » Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.
September 17 » The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.
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