The temperature on April 17, 1910 was between 4.4 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
May 6 » George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
November 21 » Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).
Day of marriage August 8, 1938
The temperature on August 8, 1938 was between 17.2 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
October 5 » In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
Day of death January 2, 1983
The temperature on January 2, 1983 was between 2.7 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
January 27 » The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
May 20 » Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
July 25 » Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
August 21 » Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor).
September 27 » Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
December 19 » The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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