The temperature on April 3, 1904 was between 5.7 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
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.
Day of marriage May 31, 1930
The temperature on May 31, 1930 was between 9.7 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 6 » The first diesel-powered automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
January 30 » The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.
February 18 » While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
April 22 » The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
September 27 » Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.
November 11 » Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
Day of death March 26, 1970
The temperature on March 26, 1970 was between -3.9 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 2 » Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
March 10 » Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
July 21 » After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
August 23 » Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
September 5 » Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
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