The temperature on November 16, 1910 was between -0.4 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
Day of marriage May 15, 1936
The temperature on May 15, 1936 was between 6.1 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 29 » Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in the 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum.
August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
October 26 » The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
October 27 » Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
November 3 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States.
November 23 » Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
Day of death April 16, 2005
The temperature on April 16, 2005 was between 6.4 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 8.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 6 » American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
January 9 » The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
March 3 » James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
July 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
December 7 » Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
December 17 » Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan.
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