The temperature on May 19, 1904 was between 4.8 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
Day of marriage November 4, 1935
The temperature on November 4, 1935 was between 5.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
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.
September 17 » The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.
November 24 » The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
Day of death June 26, 1976
The temperature on June 26, 1976 was between 17.2 °C and 32.9 °C and averaged 26.3 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
April 2 » Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
July 4 » Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
August 12 » Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War.
September 21 » Seychelles joins the United Nations.
October 20 » The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
November 23 » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.
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