The temperature on July 21, 1912 was between 8.6 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
Day of marriage November 13, 1948
The temperature on November 13, 1948 was between 2.1 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 4 » Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom becoming an independent republic, named the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister.
January 29 » The Pakistan Socialist Party is founded in Karachi.
April 9 » Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.
August 15 » The Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established south of the 38th parallel north.
August 23 » World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.
December 26 » The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.
Day of death January 30, 1998
The temperature on January 30, 1998 was between 1.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 13 » Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.
February 28 » Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
May 6 » Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
May 13 » Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
May 21 » President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
October 29 » In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
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