The temperature on August 29, 1910 was between 13.0 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
June 25 » The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of marriage September 26, 1936
The temperature on September 26, 1936 was between 7.8 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
July 22 » Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community.
July 23 » In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
December 10 » Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
Day of death October 3, 1978
The temperature on October 3, 1978 was between 6.1 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
January 24 » Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
February 13 » Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
May 1 » Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
December 16 » Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
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