The temperature on September 29, 1904 was between 10.3 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
Day of death June 9, 1960
The temperature on June 9, 1960 was between 13.5 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 25 » The United States Navy submarine USSTriton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
May 13 » Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
June 25 » Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
June 30 » Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
August 7 » Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
September 5 » Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
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