The temperature on September 4, 1906 was between 11.3 °C and 26.1 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
September 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Day of marriage July 18, 1931
The temperature on July 18, 1931 was between 12.9 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
March 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
March 31 » A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.
November 22 » Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq.
Day of death March 22, 1961
The temperature on March 22, 1961 was between -1.5 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
April 12 » Cold War: Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
April 16 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
August 1 » U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
Day of burial March 25, 1961
The temperature on March 25, 1961 was between 5.0 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
March 1 » United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
May 4 » Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67km).
July 12 » Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
November 12 » Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the Ketch Bluebelle.
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