The temperature on April 2, 1908 was between -0.9 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.
Day of marriage March 1, 1934
The temperature on March 1, 1934 was between -4.4 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
June 15 » The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
June 26 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
September 22 » The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
November 23 » An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
Day of death August 31, 1987
The temperature on August 31, 1987 was between 11.1 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
April 11 » The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
June 12 » Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
August 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
September 16 » The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
November 18 » King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
December 20 » In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker 'MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
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