The temperature on March 11, 1911 was between 1.3 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
Day of marriage March 24, 1936
The temperature on March 24, 1936 was between 2.1 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 7 » Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
June 30 » Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
July 11 » The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
August 4 » Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
November 3 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States.
Day of death August 14, 1991
The temperature on August 14, 1991 was between 12.0 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 13 » Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
February 28 » The first Gulf War ends.
March 3 » An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
April 2 » Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
July 7 » Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
August 31 » Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
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