The temperature on April 16, 1909 was between 0.5 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
Day of marriage October 18, 1933
The temperature on October 18, 1933 was between 1.9 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
February 3 » Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Third Reich foreign policy.
February 17 » Newsweek magazine is first published.
July 6 » The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
August 1 » Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona.
September 13 » Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
December 5 » The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
Day of death March 27, 1973
The temperature on March 27, 1973 was between -0.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 1 » Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
April 6 » The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
July 28 » Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
August 2 » A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
October 14 » In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
December 9 » British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
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