The temperature on December 24, 1910 was between 5.9 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
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.
July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
August 29 » The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
Day of marriage July 11, 1938
The temperature on July 11, 1938 was between 11.7 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 12.2 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
Day of death July 10, 1987
The temperature on July 10, 1987 was between 8.2 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
May 15 » The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
June 17 » With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.
August 4 » The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
October 6 » Fiji becomes a republic.
November 18 » King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
November 29 » North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
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