The temperature on November 24, 1905 was between 1.2 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
Day of death December 21, 1968
The temperature on December 21, 1968 was between -1.1 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
February 1 » The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
November 22 » The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).
December 22 » Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."
December 24 » Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.
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