The temperature on July 28, 1904 was between 12.8 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death October 3, 2000
The temperature on October 3, 2000 was between 7.9 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
February 5 » Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
February 29 » Second Chechen War: Eighty-four Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert.
November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
November 7 » The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
November 15 » A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
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