The temperature on January 14, 1904 was between 4.3 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (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".
February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death April 5, 1998
The temperature on April 5, 1998 was between 7.4 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 1 » Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
February 28 » First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
June 3 » After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
October 12 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
November 26 » Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
December 19 » President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.
Day of burial April 9, 1998
The temperature on April 9, 1998 was between 3.0 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 3 » Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
February 6 » Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
March 1 » Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
May 7 » Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
August 30 » Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
November 26 » Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
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