The temperature on June 23, 1910 was between 8.7 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
September 12 » Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
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 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
Day of marriage July 15, 1936
The temperature on July 15, 1936 was between 12.1 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 33.8 mm of rain during 12.6 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
May 5 » Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
November 23 » Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
Day of death September 17, 1986
The temperature on September 17, 1986 was between 8.2 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 13 » A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
February 22 » Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
March 7 » Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USSPreserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
May 26 » The European Community adopts the European flag.
November 3 » The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
November 25 » Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
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