The temperature on July 17, 1910 was between 12.1 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
April 29 » The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
June 19 » The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
July 4 » The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.
October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
Day of marriage November 8, 1935
The temperature on November 8, 1935 was between 5.2 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
March 16 » Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
September 24 » Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
November 24 » The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
December 5 » Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
December 30 » The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
Day of death February 16, 1995
The temperature on February 16, 1995 was between 7.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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January 25 » The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
November 10 » In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
November 14 » A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
December 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
December 6 » Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98.
December 21 » The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
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