The temperature on March 3, 1904 was between -0.4 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
Day of death December 10, 1955
The temperature on December 10, 1955 was between 7.1 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 8.5 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 3 » The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
April 11 » The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
August 17 » Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.
August 20 » Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
October 26 » Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
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