The temperature on March 31, 1911 was between 1.8 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 12 » The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Day of marriage March 31, 1934
The temperature on March 31, 1934 was between 0.6 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
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 19 » The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
October 22 » In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
Day of death August 17, 1980
The temperature on August 17, 1980 was between 15.9 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 19.1 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
January 28 » USCGCBlackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
March 24 » El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
May 14 » Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
July 19 » Opening of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
August 19 » Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
September 23 » Bob Marley plays what would be the last concert of his life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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