The temperature on May 27, 1912 was between 4.5 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
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 May 24, 1999
The temperature on May 24, 1999 was between 12.0 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
May 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
November 8 » Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
December 14 » Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
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