The temperature on February 3, 1910 was between -1.0 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
Day of marriage June 3, 1937
The temperature on June 3, 1937 was between 2.8 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
March 18 » Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
November 1 » Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
Day of death November 6, 2001
The temperature on November 6, 2001 was between 8.3 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 1.0 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 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
June 5 » Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
November 27 » A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
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