The temperature on August 14, 1923 was between 15.2 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
March 20 » The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
September 29 » The First American Track & Field championships for women are held.
Day of marriage December 28, 1948
The temperature on December 28, 1948 was between -9.9 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
May 3 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
June 16 » Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
June 26 » Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
September 14 » The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo.
December 17 » The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
December 26 » The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.
Day of death April 16, 1957
The temperature on April 16, 1957 was between 4.5 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
October 10 » The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
November 3 » Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
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