The temperature on January 20, 1908 was between -2.1 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
December 28 » The 7.1 Mw Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.
Day of marriage June 5, 1953
The temperature on June 5, 1953 was between 3.8 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
July 7 » Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
Day of death June 11, 1961
The temperature on June 11, 1961 was between 10.7 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 20 » John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the second youngest man to take the office, and the first Catholic.
February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
March 14 » A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.
May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
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