The temperature on February 16, 1904 was between -0.4 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
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.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death April 27, 1930
The temperature on April 27, 1930 was between 4.8 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
January 6 » The first diesel-powered automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
January 31 » 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
March 31 » The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
April 18 » The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that "there is no news" in their evening report.
June 16 » Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
August 29 » The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
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