The temperature on September 24, 1911 was between 4.9 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
August 14 » United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
December 14 » Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
Day of marriage February 13, 1935
The temperature on February 13, 1935 was between 5.5 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 26 » Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
March 16 » Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
June 12 » A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.
July 28 » First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
September 17 » The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.
October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
Day of death July 30, 1960
The temperature on July 30, 1960 was between 16.4 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
March 9 » Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
May 3 » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
July 4 » Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).
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