The temperature on March 31, 1910 was between -1.6 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
October 14 » English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
Day of marriage May 17, 1944
The temperature on May 17, 1944 was between 2.6 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
June 14 » World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
June 20 » Continuation War: The Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
August 2 » ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.
October 19 » United States forces land in the Philippines.
November 26 » World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
November 27 » World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
Day of death August 5, 1970
The temperature on August 5, 1970 was between 13.5 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 1 » The first of over 670,000 AMC Gremlins are released into North America to compete with foreign imported cars.
April 11 » Apollo 13 is launched.
April 24 » The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
June 15 » Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
September 1 » Palestinian guerrillas attack the motorcade of King Hussein of Jordan in a failed assassination attempt.
October 10 » Fiji becomes independent.
Day of burial August 10, 1970
The temperature on August 10, 1970 was between 12.3 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
September 8 » Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.
November 14 » Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.
November 17 » Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.
December 23 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.
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