The temperature on October 20, 1912 was between 5.5 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
Day of marriage January 15, 1937
The temperature on January 15, 1937 was between 0.7 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
Day of death December 3, 1975
The temperature on December 3, 1975 was between 1.3 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 27 » Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
April 2 » Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
April 17 » The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
June 29 » Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
October 16 » Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, Portuguese Timor.
November 11 » Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
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