The temperature on August 20, 1906 was between 8.5 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
March 15 » Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 7 » The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
Day of death January 31, 1973
The temperature on January 31, 1973 was between 0.1 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 7 » In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
January 14 » Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
April 4 » The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.
April 6 » Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
May 18 » Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.
November 17 » Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
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