The temperature on April 6, 1910 was between 5.2 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of marriage October 4, 1935
The temperature on October 4, 1935 was between 11.0 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
July 1 » Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
July 28 » First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
September 15 » The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
November 3 » George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.
December 18 » The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
Day of death January 24, 1980
The temperature on January 24, 1980 was between -0.1 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 4 » Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
June 27 » The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.
July 7 » Institution of sharia law in Iran.
September 30 » Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
October 9 » Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
November 23 » The 6.9 Mw Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and injuring 7,700–8,934.
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