The temperature on December 15, 1910 was between 6.1 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 10.3 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
April 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
November 20 » Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
Day of marriage February 21, 1935
The temperature on February 21, 1935 was between 5.4 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
March 23 » Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
September 8 » US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
September 15 » Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
Day of death December 27, 2004
The temperature on December 27, 2004 was between -6.5 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged -2.0 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
May 1 » Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
May 14 » Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon rainforest during approach to Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil, killing 33 people.
August 1 » A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
September 16 » Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
November 9 » Firefox 1.0 is released.
December 31 » The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670ft).
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