The temperature on August 20, 1910 was between 14.0 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
June 19 » The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
Day of marriage February 8, 1934
The temperature on February 8, 1934 was between 2.9 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
Day of death February 2, 1955
The temperature on February 2, 1955 was between 2.3 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 9.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
May 14 » Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
June 7 » Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
September 25 » The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
November 19 » National Review publishes its first issue.
December 20 » Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
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