The temperature on February 19, 1904 was between 0.4 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death March 28, 1962
The temperature on March 28, 1962 was between 1.5 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 4 » A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
March 19 » The Algerian War of Independence ends.
July 23 » The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
November 20 » Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
December 11 » Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
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