The temperature on June 2, 1904 was between 10.6 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
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.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
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 death October 11, 1969
The temperature on October 11, 1969 was between 6.6 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 10 » In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.
March 18 » The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
April 9 » The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
April 22 » The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.
May 16 » Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
November 3 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
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