The temperature on August 3, 1908 was between 8.0 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
April 1 » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
July 26 » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.
November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.
Day of marriage December 1, 1928
The temperature on December 1, 1928 was between 7.3 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
Day of death July 7, 1979
The temperature on July 7, 1979 was between 11.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 25 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
February 26 » The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
May 9 » Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
September 13 » South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
December 27 » The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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