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
May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
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
April 8 » The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
July 1 » Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
July 20 » Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
November 3 » George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.
November 9 » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
December 12 » Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
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 30 » Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
March 31 » TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
July 25 » A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
September 28 » Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
October 15 » Marco Campos dies in a race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series.
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