The temperature on January 8, 1909 was between -0.7 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Day of marriage May 19, 1937
The temperature on May 19, 1937 was between 11.6 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
June 14 » Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
July 7 » The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
October 11 » The Duke and Duchess of Windsor tour Nazi Germany for 12 days and meet Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.
November 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
Day of death August 27, 2010
The temperature on August 27, 2010 was between 10.1 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 27 » The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
April 3 » Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
April 14 » Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
April 20 » The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
July 25 » WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
August 24 » In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.
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