The temperature on September 18, 1908 was between 8.1 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
April 16 » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
Day of death June 27, 1935
The temperature on June 27, 1935 was between 15.8 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 14.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 2 » Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
April 8 » The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
June 18 » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
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