The temperature on January 18, 1906 was between 3.6 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very 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.
June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
September 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Day of marriage June 3, 1927
The temperature on June 3, 1927 was between 7.6 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
Day of death March 5, 1999
The temperature on March 5, 1999 was between 3.2 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 9 » Kosovo War: The Battle of Košare begins.
April 14 » NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
May 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
August 31 » A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
November 8 » Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
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