The temperature on January 8, 1904 was between -1.1 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
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.
October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
Day of marriage December 4, 1926
The temperature on December 4, 1926 was between 0.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
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