The temperature on July 6, 1904 was between 12.1 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death April 17, 2007
The temperature on April 17, 2007 was between 5.7 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
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.
January 10 » A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
March 7 » The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
June 18 » The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters.
July 31 » Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
November 9 » The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
November 23 » MSExplorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
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