The temperature on August 11, 1907 was between 11.2 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
April 17 » The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
September 26 » Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.
October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
Day of death September 6, 1964
The temperature on September 6, 1964 was between 13.9 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 32.1 mm of rain during 9.4 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Blue Ribbon Sports, which would later become Nike, is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes.
June 19 » The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
August 4 » Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
September 25 » The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
October 1 » Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
October 14 » Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
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