The temperature on January 4, 1907 was between -0.4 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
April 17 » The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
Day of marriage April 12, 1926
The temperature on April 12, 1926 was between 1.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
Day of death June 1, 1970
The temperature on June 1, 1970 was between 6.0 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
August 17 » Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
August 24 » Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
September 7 » Bill Shoemaker beats Johnny Longden's record to become the winningest jockey in horse racing history at Del Mar racetrack
September 9 » A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
October 5 » The British Trade Commissioner is kidnapped by members of the FLQ, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
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