The temperature on September 23, 1904 was between 4.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
Day of marriage April 14, 1930
The temperature on April 14, 1930 was between -0.4 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 16 » The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
April 2 » After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
May 24 » Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
October 5 » British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
December 2 » Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,296,000,000 in 2019) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
Day of death August 2, 1968
The temperature on August 2, 1968 was between 15.1 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
June 5 » Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
June 11 » Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
October 11 » NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.
October 16 » Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
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