The temperature on June 25, 1912 was between 9.7 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
Day of death September 23, 2001
The temperature on September 23, 2001 was between 11.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
Day of burial September 27, 2001
The temperature on September 27, 2001 was between 12.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
April 11 » The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
May 25 » Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
September 27 » In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
December 19 » Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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