The temperature on November 4, 1910 was between 2.2 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
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.
October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
Day of marriage August 30, 1934
The temperature on August 30, 1934 was between 6.9 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 2 » The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
August 2 » Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
October 16 » Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
October 22 » In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
Day of death August 6, 1938
The temperature on August 6, 1938 was between 18.4 °C and 27.2 °C and averaged 21.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.
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