The temperature on November 5, 1904 was between 8.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
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).
December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
Day of marriage June 4, 1935
The temperature on June 4, 1935 was between 6.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
June 18 » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
October 19 » The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
November 24 » The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
December 9 » Student protests in Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government.
Day of death March 10, 1986
The temperature on March 10, 1986 was between -2.1 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 13 » A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
February 16 » The Soviet liner MSMikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
February 20 » The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
March 3 » The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become fully independent from the United Kingdom.
July 9 » The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
September 5 » Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
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