The temperature on June 25, 1906 was between 14.1 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
August 16 » The 8.2 Mw Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
September 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
Day of marriage July 25, 1927
The temperature on July 25, 1927 was between 13.3 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
Day of death September 20, 1958
The temperature on September 20, 1958 was between 9.9 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » European Economic Community is established.
January 23 » After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
April 26 » Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
September 14 » The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
December 11 » French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
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