The temperature on January 26, 1911 was between 6.1 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
April 6 » During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
September 24 » His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
Day of death May 15, 1999
The temperature on May 15, 1999 was between 7.5 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 11 » Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
May 3 » Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war.
May 24 » The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
November 30 » Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
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.
Day of cremation May 19, 1999
The temperature on May 19, 1999 was between 12.4 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 14 » NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
August 31 » The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
September 21 » The Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
October 31 » Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
December 31 » The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
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