The temperature on February 10, 1935 was between -5.2 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
May 14 » The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.
June 10 » Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
June 25 » Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
Day of death August 12, 2014
The temperature on August 12, 2014 was between 14.1 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
May 24 » A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
June 14 » A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
July 17 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
August 3 » A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
November 21 » A stampede in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe caused by the police firing tear gas kills at least eleven people and injures 40 others.
December 15 » A gunman takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.
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