The temperature on May 5, 1910 was between 2.9 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
November 23 » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
Day of marriage May 16, 1935
The temperature on May 16, 1935 was between 0.4 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 16 » Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
April 14 » The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
August 15 » Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
November 22 » The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
December 5 » Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
December 18 » The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
Day of death March 12, 2001
The temperature on March 12, 2001 was between 4.4 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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June 11 » Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
September 12 » Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
October 8 » A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
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