The temperature on September 4, 1904 was between 8.2 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
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 marriage December 17, 1927
The temperature on December 17, 1927 was between -13.9 °C and -3.6 °C and averaged -8.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
Day of death January 20, 1985
The temperature on January 20, 1985 was between -8.2 °C and -3.0 °C and averaged -6.1 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
February 19 » William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
March 16 » Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
March 20 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
April 21 » The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.
December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
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