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 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
March 23 » Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
May 29 » First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
June 18 » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
July 20 » Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
December 5 » Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
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.
February 11 » A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.
March 8 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
March 16 » Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
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.
October 22 » Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
December 31 » A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
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