The temperature on July 22, 1904 was between 11.4 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
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.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
Day of marriage November 9, 1927
The temperature on November 9, 1927 was between 2.1 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
Day of death May 6, 1978
The temperature on May 6, 1978 was between 11.6 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
March 11 » Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
June 1 » The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
August 13 » One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
September 16 » The 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people were killed.
November 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
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