The temperature on March 22, 1906 was between -1.9 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
August 5 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).
Day of marriage January 3, 1929
The temperature on January 3, 1929 was between -1.2 and 1.5 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
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.
April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
August 16 » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
November 7 » In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
Day of death April 8, 1962
The temperature on April 8, 1962 was between 3.6 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 16.8 mm of rain during 13.6 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
June 11 » Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
June 14 » The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
July 5 » The official independence of Algeria is proclaimed after an 8-year-long war with France.
July 6 » As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
August 30 » Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
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