The temperature on December 5, 1930 was between -4.7 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 13 » The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory.
June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
August 29 » The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
September 17 » The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.
October 5 » British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
Day of death December 20, 2012
The temperature on December 20, 2012 was between 2.6 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 10.0 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
February 15 » Three hundred sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
April 30 » An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
May 10 » The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.
May 19 » A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
June 13 » A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
August 6 » NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
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