The temperature on January 6, 1910 was between 4.3 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
June 19 » The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
July 4 » The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.
August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
Day of death March 19, 1990
The temperature on March 19, 1990 was between 10.9 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 14 » Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
May 4 » Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
July 11 » Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
August 2 » Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
September 2 » Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
December 22 » Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.
Day of burial March 24, 1990
The temperature on March 24, 1990 was between 4.9 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 18 » Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
April 9 » Thirteen thousand members of the Dene and Métis tribes sign a land claim agreement for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000sqmi) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.
May 29 » The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
July 11 » Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
November 7 » Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
December 11 » Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.
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