The temperature on July 14, 1909 was between 11.5 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of marriage July 1, 1961
The temperature on July 1, 1961 was between 15.2 °C and 31.5 °C and averaged 23.8 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 24 » Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
April 20 » Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
June 23 » The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
December 15 » Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
Day of death January 21, 1983
The temperature on January 21, 1983 was between 5.1 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 14 » United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
April 25 » Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
September 1 » Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
September 19 » Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
November 10 » Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
December 31 » The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
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