The temperature on August 29, 1910 was between 13.0 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
Day of death April 14, 1920
The temperature on April 14, 1920 was between 6.2 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 23 » The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
May 16 » In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
May 29 » The Louth flood of 1920 was a severe flash flooding in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth which occurred 29 May 1920, resulting in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in Britain during the 20th century.
August 20 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio
August 20 » The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
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