The temperature on May 17, 1904 was between 11.0 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
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 death January 4, 1969
The temperature on January 4, 1969 was between -0.4 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
April 17 » Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
July 3 » Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
September 25 » The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
November 12 » Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
December 17 » Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
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