The temperature on October 28, 1904 was between 2.1 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death April 23, 1927
The temperature on April 23, 1927 was between 5.4 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
June 27 » Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
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