The temperature on May 10, 1924 was between 1.0 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
Day of death May 5, 1967
The temperature on May 5, 1967 was between 9.4 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
January 27 » Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
May 27 » The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USSJohn F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
July 12 » Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.
August 14 » UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
November 14 » American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
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