The temperature on February 11, 1912 was between 1.8 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
Day of death August 4, 1978
The temperature on August 4, 1978 was between 14.4 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
January 24 » Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
March 16 » Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
June 15 » King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
July 7 » The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
October 8 » Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
November 23 » Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.
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