The temperature on March 23, 1904 was between 4.3 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of marriage September 10, 1935
The temperature on September 10, 1935 was between 3.2 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
February 26 » Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
June 10 » Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
July 16 » The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
October 20 » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
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