The temperature on June 29, 1910 was between 10.6 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
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.
October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of marriage July 13, 1932
The temperature on July 13, 1932 was between 17.6 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 20.4 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 12 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
March 19 » The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
May 28 » In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
November 3 » Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
December 7 » German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
December 25 » A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
Day of death December 15, 1968
The temperature on December 15, 1968 was between -6.3 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
February 1 » The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
April 8 » BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
July 18 » Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
August 2 » An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
October 20 » Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
Day of burial December 18, 1968
The temperature on December 18, 1968 was between -0.7 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
May 26 » H-dagurinn in Iceland: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
July 17 » Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
September 15 » The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
October 12 » Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
November 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
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