The temperature on November 2, 1911 was between 0.7 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 29 » Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is captured by the Mexican Liberal Party, igniting the Magonista rebellion of 1911.
May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
December 14 » Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
Day of marriage September 4, 1935
The temperature on September 4, 1935 was between 10.0 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 31 » A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
June 3 » One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
June 10 » Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
August 15 » Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
November 9 » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
December 30 » The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
Day of death September 4, 1959
The temperature on September 4, 1959 was between 10.7 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
May 16 » The Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time.
May 19 » The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
July 7 » Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
September 14 » The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
October 2 » Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. The first episode is “Where Is Everybody?”
December 13 » Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
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