The temperature on August 27, 1934 was between 11.1 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
November 30 » The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100mph.
Day of death January 16, 1935
The temperature on January 16, 1935 was between 5.6 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
August 14 » Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
October 10 » In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.
November 9 » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
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