The temperature on October 12, 1912 was between -3.1 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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 January 14, 1980
The temperature on January 14, 1980 was between -11.0 °C and -2.7 °C and averaged -6.1 °C. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
May 17 » General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
June 10 » The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
July 1 » "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
September 11 » A new constitution of Chile is established under the influence of then Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which is subject to controversy in Chile today.
September 23 » Bob Marley plays what would be the last concert of his life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
November 12 » The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
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