The temperature on January 1, 1911 was between 0.8 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
December 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
December 29 » Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
Day of death July 15, 2001
The temperature on July 15, 2001 was between 8.5 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 31 » In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
September 2 » The adult-oriented television block Adult Swim debuts on Cartoon Network.
September 12 » Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
October 26 » The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
November 27 » A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
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