The temperature on May 28, 1904 was between 10.9 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
Day of marriage June 17, 1927
The temperature on June 17, 1927 was between 13.2 °C and 28.3 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 16.9 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
Day of death September 19, 1937
The temperature on September 19, 1937 was between 8.7 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
January 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
September 25 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
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