The temperature on May 31, 1914 was between 4.4 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
August 9 » Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
November 15 » Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
Day of death March 19, 1947
The temperature on March 19, 1947 was between 1.8 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
February 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
October 16 » The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
November 17 » The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
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