The temperature on July 19, 1904 was between 5.4 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death October 4, 1957
The temperature on October 4, 1957 was between 3.8 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
April 5 » In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first Chief Minister.
July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
October 29 » Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.
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