The temperature on August 19, 1904 was between 9.3 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
Day of marriage May 27, 1926
The temperature on May 27, 1926 was between 10.2 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
Day of death November 21, 1960
The temperature on November 21, 1960 was between 6.5 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
March 5 » Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
May 11 » Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.
July 11 » France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
October 12 » Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death during a live Television broadcast.
November 11 » A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
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