The temperature on August 21, 1904 was between 4.2 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
April 5 » The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh and Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
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.
Day of death July 22, 1971
The temperature on July 22, 1971 was between 8.8 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 20 » The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
May 26 » Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
August 9 » The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
September 29 » Oman joins the Arab League.
October 29 » In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
November 18 » Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.
Day of burial July 26, 1971
The temperature on July 26, 1971 was between 13.6 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
February 8 » The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
April 10 » Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
September 8 » In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
November 28 » Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
December 4 » The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
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