The temperature on November 30, 1904 was between 1.8 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
Day of death October 4, 1985
The temperature on October 4, 1985 was between 13.4 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 5 » Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
March 3 » Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
May 29 » Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
September 19 » Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.
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