The temperature on June 13, 1904 was between 4.9 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
Day of marriage May 8, 1934
The temperature on May 8, 1934 was between 2.6 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 16.5 mm of rain during 9.7 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 6 » Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
October 16 » Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
October 22 » In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
Day of death July 17, 1988
The temperature on July 17, 1988 was between 11.9 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 20 » Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
June 1 » The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
June 12 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
August 1 » A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
December 9 » The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.
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