The temperature on February 21, 1904 was between 7.6 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
Day of marriage November 8, 1927
The temperature on November 8, 1927 was between 3.5 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
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.
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