The temperature on February 23, 1911 was between 6.1 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
June 22 » Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
Day of marriage August 29, 1936
The temperature on August 29, 1936 was between 7.1 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
September 9 » The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRPAfonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
November 8 » Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
November 20 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
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