The temperature on June 15, 1910 was between 11.0 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
Day of death July 8, 1979
The temperature on July 8, 1979 was between 13.5 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
April 10 » Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
May 30 » Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
October 12 » The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the western Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Tip.
October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
November 1 » In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara.
December 21 » Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
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