The temperature on March 7, 1906 was between 7.5 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
Day of marriage June 27, 1932
The temperature on June 27, 1932 was between 10.6 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1 » The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
May 21 » Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
July 8 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
September 17 » A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
November 3 » Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
December 18 » The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship.
Day of death September 17, 1947
The temperature on September 17, 1947 was between 13.8 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 10 » The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
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