The temperature on June 5, 1911 was between 11.6 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Day of marriage April 30, 1936
The temperature on April 30, 1936 was between 6.0 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 16 » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
July 11 » The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
August 10 » Spanish Civil War: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is dissolved by the Spanish Republic.
August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
December 23 » Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional Defence Council of Aragon.
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