The temperature on December 8, 1911 was between 1.0 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
Day of marriage May 13, 1936
The temperature on May 13, 1936 was between 7.5 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
May 28 » Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
October 1 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, handing control of Catalan defence militias over to the Generalitat.
Day of death December 22, 2001
The temperature on December 22, 2001 was between -3.0 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 18 » FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
July 2 » The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
December 15 » The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.
December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
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