The temperature on October 17, 1911 was between 2.3 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
January 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
Day of marriage June 14, 1934
The temperature on June 14, 1934 was between 5.2 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
June 15 » The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
September 18 » The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
November 23 » An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
December 29 » Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
Day of death August 25, 1990
The temperature on August 25, 1990 was between 13.6 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 13 » Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
March 31 » Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
May 30 » Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.
June 20 » The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
September 30 » The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
November 15 » The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
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