The temperature on February 10, 1906 was between -3.0 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
Day of death April 2, 1958
The temperature on April 2, 1958 was between -0.6 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (22%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
May 24 » United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
May 28 » Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
October 7 » The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
December 1 » The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
Day of burial April 5, 1958
The temperature on April 5, 1958 was between 3.7 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
June 17 » The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
December 5 » The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
December 11 » French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
December 14 » The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
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