The temperature on March 5, 1912 was between 6.3 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
Day of death February 8, 1999
The temperature on February 8, 1999 was between -4.1 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 23 » Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
April 7 » The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
April 14 » A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
May 1 » SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.
July 5 » U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
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