The temperature on April 16, 1907 was between 5.2 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
August 17 » Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened.
August 29 » The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
November 16 » Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
December 31 » The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.
Day of marriage July 6, 1935
The temperature on July 6, 1935 was between 9.1 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
March 23 » Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
July 16 » The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
August 15 » Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
September 15 » The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
October 19 » The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
Day of death April 17, 1999
The temperature on April 17, 1999 was between -1.3 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 28 » Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.
May 3 » The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20mph (484 +/- 32km/h).
June 10 » Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
November 30 » British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
December 21 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.
December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
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