The temperature on April 1, 1904 was between 3.9 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
Day of marriage May 10, 1937
The temperature on May 10, 1937 was between 7.9 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 1 » Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is bombed by German fascist forces, supporting Francoist Nationalists.
May 28 » Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
September 25 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
Day of death July 7, 1980
The temperature on July 7, 1980 was between 13.7 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 21.0 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 18 » A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
May 9 » In Florida, Liberian freighter MVSummit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150ft. into the water and die.
June 27 » The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.
September 17 » After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
September 18 » Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.
November 23 » The 6.9 Mw Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and injuring 7,700–8,934.
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