The temperature on October 6, 1906 was between 11.8 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
Day of death January 20, 1982
The temperature on January 20, 1982 was between 0.2 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
May 21 » Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
June 13 » Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
June 27 » Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
July 9 » Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
September 16 » Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
December 7 » In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
Day of cremation January 23, 1982
The temperature on January 23, 1982 was between -2.1 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
May 29 » Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
June 3 » The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.
June 14 » Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
August 27 » Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 1⁄2 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
December 7 » In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
December 13 » The 6.0 Ms North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800, and injuring 1,500.
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