The temperature on May 4, 1912 was between 5.1 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
Day of death June 21, 1990
The temperature on June 21, 1990 was between 10.5 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
January 18 » Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
March 18 » In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
May 1 » The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.
August 28 » An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
September 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
November 7 » Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
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