The temperature on August 23, 1906 was between 10.6 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
September 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
Day of death March 7, 1973
The temperature on March 7, 1973 was between -0.9 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 25 » Ireland gets a new newspaper called Sunday World.
April 4 » A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
September 20 » Singer Jim Croce, songwiter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
November 16 » U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
November 17 » Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
December 17 » Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.
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