The temperature on September 18, 1904 was between 5.1 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
Day of marriage August 8, 1928
The temperature on August 8, 1928 was between 13.0 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
Day of death November 2, 1984
The temperature on November 2, 1984 was between 7.1 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 13 » Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
May 8 » The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.
August 4 » The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
August 15 » The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh
September 20 » A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
November 2 » Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
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