The temperature on September 14, 1904 was between 5.8 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
April 5 » The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh and Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
Day of death January 11, 2000
The temperature on January 11, 2000 was between -1.2 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
June 5 » The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
June 13 » President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
October 31 » Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff from Taipei, killing 83.
November 11 » Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
November 15 » Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
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