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
January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
February 18 » The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2mi) away.
June 22 » Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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
January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
June 3 » One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
July 28 » First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
September 15 » The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
December 27 » Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.
December 30 » The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
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
May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
August 1 » Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
August 13 » The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
November 9 » Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
November 14 » Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
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