The temperature on May 25, 1904 was between 11.8 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
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 November 19, 1936
The temperature on November 19, 1936 was between 0.6 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
June 28 » The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
July 17 » Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
August 9 » Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
October 27 » Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
Day of death September 15, 1979
The temperature on September 15, 1979 was between 3.9 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
May 30 » Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
June 4 » Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
October 15 » Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
November 3 » Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
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