The temperature on December 20, 1904 was between -2.4 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
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 23, 1927
The temperature on November 23, 1927 was between -5.6 °C and -0.6 °C and averaged -3.7 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
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 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
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.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
Day of death January 22, 1990
The temperature on January 22, 1990 was between 7.7 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 20 » Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
April 9 » An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
April 25 » Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
June 10 » British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities.
July 21 » Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.
November 16 » Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
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