The temperature on October 9, 1910 was between 8.4 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
Day of marriage August 21, 1931
The temperature on August 21, 1931 was between 12.3 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 21 » Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
March 31 » A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
May 29 » Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
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