The temperature on February 6, 1909 was between -1.6 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
Day of marriage December 7, 1949
The temperature on December 7, 1949 was between 8.9 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 15 » Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
March 30 » Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
May 6 » EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
May 12 » Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
September 30 » The Berlin Airlift ends.
November 7 » The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
Day of death May 20, 1983
The temperature on May 20, 1983 was between 7.1 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
July 7 » Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
September 12 » The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
September 23 » Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
November 5 » Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.
December 5 » Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
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