The temperature on July 19, 1910 was between 11.8 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 29 » The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
Day of death January 7, 1968
The temperature on January 7, 1968 was between -4.8 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged -1.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
April 3 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
May 26 » H-dagurinn in Iceland: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
October 14 » The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
November 23 » 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game: Harvard Crimson rallies to tie Yale Bulldogs 29–29 at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts.
December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
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