The temperature on May 18, 1910 was between 12.9 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
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.
May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
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.
November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
Day of marriage February 6, 1932
The temperature on February 6, 1932 was between -3.2 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
May 21 » Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
June 17 » Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
July 8 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
July 17 » Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
September 23 » The unification of Saudi Arabia is completed.
December 19 » BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
Day of death January 11, 1958
The temperature on January 11, 1958 was between 4.2 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain during 11.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
August 29 » United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
September 1 » Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
November 25 » French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
December 5 » The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
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