The temperature on October 16, 1910 was between 2.1 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
April 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
Day of marriage December 17, 1930
The temperature on December 17, 1930 was between -0.5 °C and 2.1 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 26 » The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
February 16 » The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
March 6 » International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
March 29 » Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
April 6 » At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."
June 21 » One-year conscription comes into force in France.
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