The temperature on July 15, 1907 was between 10.6 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
January 14 » An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
January 29 » Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
Day of marriage April 15, 1936
The temperature on April 15, 1936 was between -1.7 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
August 4 » Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
August 9 » Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
Day of death May 25, 1978
The temperature on May 25, 1978 was between 8.8 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
March 5 » The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
July 7 » The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
July 30 » The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
August 10 » Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
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