The temperature on March 15, 1912 was between 6.7 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
Day of marriage June 30, 1934
The temperature on June 30, 1934 was between 12.6 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
July 2 » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.
Day of death January 10, 1989
The temperature on January 10, 1989 was between 1.0 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 10.1 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 6 » The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
April 2 » Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
June 16 » Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
August 8 » Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
August 20 » The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
December 1 » Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
Day of cremation January 13, 1989
The temperature on January 13, 1989 was between 2.8 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 8 » Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
April 21 » Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
June 16 » Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
August 24 » Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
October 26 » China Airlines Flight 204 crashes after take off from Hualien Airport in Taiwan, killing all 54 people on board.
December 16 » Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
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