The temperature on October 21, 1910 was between 4.2 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 1 » The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of marriage December 18, 1935
The temperature on December 18, 1935 was between -1.1 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
May 14 » The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.
May 25 » Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
September 15 » The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
September 30 » The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
October 20 » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
Day of death July 2, 1990
The temperature on July 2, 1990 was between 7.9 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 18 » Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
April 7 » Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
June 22 » Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
August 23 » West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
September 2 » Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
November 2 » British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
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