The temperature on April 11, 1910 was between -3.0 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
Day of marriage July 25, 1940
The temperature on July 25, 1940 was between 10.4 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
May 6 » John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
July 20 » Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
August 15 » An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiserElli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
August 31 » Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
September 19 » World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance movement.
October 17 » The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
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