The temperature on November 24, 1904 was between -1.0 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
Day of marriage December 14, 1967
The temperature on December 14, 1967 was between 6.6 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
January 14 » The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
March 12 » Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
July 24 » During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"); the statement angered the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians.
November 7 » Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
December 21 » Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a human-to-human heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant.
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