The temperature on March 10, 1904 was between 1.6 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
Day of death October 20, 1953
The temperature on October 20, 1953 was between 12.2 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
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