The temperature on January 20, 1930 was between 2.3 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 18 » Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
February 18 » While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
May 7 » The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
May 24 » Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
October 3 » The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded.
Day of death January 12, 1934
The temperature on January 12, 1934 was between 4.1 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 12.5 mm of rain during 9.5 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
May 15 » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
October 9 » An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
November 30 » The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100mph.
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